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  • RE: Dump file

    In short, SQL Server monitoring is sending out an alert about a process consuming a large amount of memory... check here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;959004&sd=rss&spid=2855

    Interesting enough the very act of sending out the...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Database(s) Design

    I'm not sure I got a clear picture of your scenario and issue/s. Perhaps I'm getting to old for this, perhaps is the fact that there is no coffee yet...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Performance with foreign key

    Grant Fritchey (5/14/2009)In... what was that, 1995? I was working with both back then.

    :w00t: So I'm not the only dinosaur around, huh? 😀

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Performance with foreign key

    sabutp (5/14/2009)I am not sure in MS SQL but in Sysbase SQL separate indexes are created automatically for primary and foreign keys.

    MS SQL Server != Sybase

    They departed ways when...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Error Using BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT from SQL 2000 with Oracle linked server

    Technically this is a distributed transaction so I would go with BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRAN instead of BEGIN TRAN.

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Performance with foreign key

    sabutp (5/14/2009)As I heard from the documentation that, when we creating a FK, create an index automaticaly, no need for an additional index key for the FK

    This is a urban...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: deleting old partitions

    As far as I know explicitily dropping a partition remains to be an Oracle feature; in the SQL Server world you have to switch the partition out.

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Bad habit #2: Prod data -->> dev, test databases

    Steve Jones - Editor (5/13/2009)you need a person (not a developer)

    you made my day 😀

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Performance with foreign key

    Joel Ewald (5/13/2009)


    What he is saying is that if you have Table 1 ( PK int ) and Table 2 ( FK int )

    Lets say for instance you want to...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Need help breaking "bad habit"

    David (5/13/2009)Depending on the size of your shop.

    Agreed.

    David (5/13/2009)they are not allowed to do anything in production though.

    Couldn't agree more.

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Need help breaking "bad habit"

    Barkingdog (5/13/2009)


    Bad habit: we generally make developers "dbo" of dev, test, and production databases.

    Oh yes... this is a very bad one.

    There is no reason in the world to grant a...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Bad habit #2: Prod data -->> dev, test databases

    This shouldn't be considered a bad habit.

    In a three tier deployment model the "test" better saying UAT version of any given database should be a production size database refreshed from...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Team Foundation Services question!

    Gift Peddie (5/12/2009)Now there is addin for Java and none .NET developers from third party so yes it is a SQL Server question albeit not direct.

    Cool! can't wait until seeing...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: No.of data files for TempDB which is in a dedicated drive in a cluster

    Nice article RBarr, Thank you!

    I'll revise my rule of thumbs about this matter 😉

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Team Foundation Services question!

    Unusual post in a SQL Server forum.

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.

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