At 12:15 PM 08-11-00 +0000, you wrote (re MSSQLServer 7.0):

> A torn
>page can occur if the system crashes (for example, because
>of power failure) between the time the operating system
>writes the first 512-byte sector to disk and the completion
>of the 8-KB I/O operation. If the first sector of a database
>page is successfully written before the crash, it will appear
>that the database page on disk was updated, although it might
>not have succeeded.

How about five minutes solemn contemplation for the misfortunes of our
MSSQL colleagues...

Helen

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