Re: Is Anti-virus necessary and other SQL newbie questions



Hi

It can be installed, but exclude all MDF, LDF and NDF files as it scanning a
file on startup might time out SQL Server and then SQL Server will mark the
DB as suspect.

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"Sean Clark" <SeanClark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We have a Windows 2003 server domain and we'll be added a SQL Server to
> the
> mix in the coming month. We run Symantec's Corp edition anti-virus and
> push
> the updates to client computers and also use SUS to update client
> computers.
>
> My question is do I need Syamantec installed on the SQL Server, and if so
> does it need to be specially configured? I'm afraid that the real time
> scanning of a busy database server may cause us problems.
>


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