|  | Posted by Tom Moreau on 12/06/07 22:26 
Why does the system memory need to be reset?  I've seen SQL Servers stay up for months and not need a reboot.  That's what High Availability is all
 about.
 
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 Tom
 
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 Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS
 SQL Server MVP
 Toronto, ON   Canada
 https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tom.Moreau
 
 
 "Neil" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
 news:NQZ5j.69213$RX.4340@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net...
 OK, that's fine. But my POV is that rebooting in general, and resetting the
 system memory, is a good thing to do. I take it that you disagree?
 
 "Michael Abair" <mabair@autotask.com> wrote in message
 news:eTxBHcEOIHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
 > Just because the reboot fixed the issue doesn't mean that a preventative
 > reboot will stop it from occuring.
 >
 > A reboot might not have been needed to resolve the issue in the first
 > place. Possibly a configuration change
 > or bouncing a service could have resolved it.  My advice is to spend some
 > time researching the issue and if
 > you cant find a way to resolve it then find a way to detect it and have it
 > perform the least intrusive form of corrective action.
 >
 > -Mike
 >
 > "Neil" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
 > news:5CY5j.76025$YL5.36846@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
 >> Running a SQL 7 system on a Windows 2000 server using Access 2000 on
 >> client machines as a front end. System administrator currently reboots
 >> the server once a month. Yesterday we had some weird thing with the
 >> database where users were getting ODBC errors when trying to access it.
 >> Rebooted the server, everything was fine. Suggested to the sa that he
 >> reboot the server once a week. He said he already does it once a month,
 >> and that's sufficient.
 >>
 >> My POV is that: a) doing it once a week might prevent situations such as
 >> the one yesterday; b) even without situations like the one yesterday,
 >> performance may be degrading over the course of the month, without our
 >> being aware of it, and rebooting once a week might help performance.
 >>
 >> Any thoughts on this?
 >>
 >> Thanks!
 >>
 >> Neil
 >>
 >
 >
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