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  • RE: Review of SQL Compare v3

    Having used SQL Compare for a couple of years now out in-the-field, I'd agree with your observations Robert. It is an excellent product, very stable and does what it is...

  • RE: Building a Demo Server

    Accentuate the positive - thank you, that's the phrase I was looking for - so true.  Loading up the customer's own data is a definite bonus, although in some situations...

  • RE: Building a Demo Server

    Good article Steve, this is an area that is too often overlooked. Just a few thoughts on the data side : My personal preference for demo data is to use...

  • RE: DTS Problem on SQL Server 2000 SP3

    A fix for this problem has been found.  Although slightly different to the one we experienced, the problem is described at :

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814113

     

    ...and the hotfix for it can be downloaded...

  • RE: Tips for optimizing performance?? - VB/SQL Server

    Just spotted something else with regard to an earlier post about clustered indexes:

    "Keep the number of indexes down to what is actually required as the more indexes used, the more...

  • RE: Tips for optimizing performance?? - VB/SQL Server

    Christy,

    Some good advice there with regard to specifics, so thought I'd add some more general troubleshooting advice.

    A very simple way to ascertain if you need to concentrate on the application...

  • RE: Beyond 8 GB memory

    Apologies if I mis-understood the statement, but if you're ordering 32G of RAM and you're not sure if you can use it, shouldn't you check first ??!!

  • RE: Locking Behavior in SQL 2000

    Excellent article Andres, learnt a few things just in that short piece about lock escalation which I wasn't aware of which will certainly help when performance tuning. If there are...

  • RE: Amazing FUD

    Without getting into the philosophical question of which OS is "better", I think the number of sites dedicated to criticising Windows compared to those knocking Linux is indicative of the...

  • RE: Mapping Database File Objects and Fragmentation

    Chris,

    I know there's a couple of products on the market that already do this sort of thing (can't remember the names off the top of my head, I know one...

  • RE: Worst Practice - Spaces in Object Names

    Totally agree - bad enough that data types can't be standardised across databases/programming languages, let alone adding nonsense like spaces and underscores to object names. Added to which, doesn't it...

  • RE: Lots of Tables and a Little DMO

    Andy, just to confirm you're right. I ran ISQLW.exe through Dependency Walker (see Herve Roggero's article at

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/hroggero/doevents.asp) - great tool.

    SQLDMO.dll does not appear to be loaded by QA (unlike Enterprise...

  • RE: Lots of Tables and a Little DMO

    Interesting. We've got over 1,400 tables in each of our databases (20+) in a Sage Enterprise system, and we don't see 45 second delays at login, ever, even when it's...

  • RE: re-index

    Andy,

    According to the article at http://www.sql-server-performance.com/statistics.asp :

    "If the number of rows in a table are greater than 6, but less than or equal to 500, then statistics are automatically updated...

  • RE: re-index

    Good question.

    The advice I've always understood to be correct and which I've found has been born out in practice is that if there's been significant changes in the values of...

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