AUTOCLOSE

It has been suggested to me by one of my vendors that I
need to have AUTOCLOSE turned on for my SQL Server 2000
backups to be reliable. I have never heard this before.
Does anyone feel AUTOCLOSE needs to be set to True for
Enterprise Manager/Agent/Jobs backups to be reliable?
Please explain.
ThanksThat is complete rubbish. :-)
Your vendor apparently think that you do backup through nicking the database
files at the file system level...
Even if you did, autoclose is not, AFAIK, documented to work for this. I nev
er recommend to do backup of the
database files, but if someone would do that, you need to shutdown SQL Serve
r.
(And convincing me of the opposite requires a BOL topic or a KB article ;-).
Such may very well exists, and I
may just have missed it, of course.)
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
"Johnny Kennedy" <jkennedy@.pcmh.com> wrote in message news:12a7a01c411b6$f56bf6b0$a401280a@.
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> It has been suggested to me by one of my vendors that I
> need to have AUTOCLOSE turned on for my SQL Server 2000
> backups to be reliable. I have never heard this before.
> Does anyone feel AUTOCLOSE needs to be set to True for
> Enterprise Manager/Agent/Jobs backups to be reliable?
> Please explain.
> Thanks