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  • RE: DBCC Shrinkdatabase run every week?

    This is coming from the Database Manager at our new company.

    That seems to have been missed. Sadly it is MANAGEMENT/LEADERSHIP that is forcing these ridiculous requirements, not some Jr....

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    Kevin G. Boles
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  • RE: DBCC Shrinkdatabase run every week?

    Steve Vassallo (4/29/2015)


    Our company was just acquired by another. They DBA team there added some jobs to our servers and one was a DBCC Shrinkdatabase command followed by a...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
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  • RE: SQL 2012 - Mirroring - Performance issue after failover

    Lynn Pettis (4/28/2015)


    TheSQLGuru (4/28/2015)


    Oh, the MOST obvious possible cause: Your Secondary is a fraction of the power (CPU/RAM/IO/etc) that your Primary is!! :hehe:

    From the original post:

    - Identical hardware between principal...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
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  • RE: SQL 2012 - Mirroring - Performance issue after failover

    Oh, the MOST obvious possible cause: Your Secondary is a fraction of the power (CPU/RAM/IO/etc) that your Primary is!! :hehe:

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: SQL 2012 - Mirroring - Performance issue after failover

    What form of troubleshooting did you do on the database server itself??

    1) use sp_whoisactive to find causes of calls not completing in a timely manner (locking/blocking, system processes running, query...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Update takes too long

    Igor Micev (4/28/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (4/27/2015)


    TheSQLGuru (4/27/2015)


    Igor Micev (4/27/2015)


    You can use the NOLOCK hint for srno without worries because u're reading an identity value.

    Can you please explain that statement Igor??

    Yeah. I'm...

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    Kevin G. Boles
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  • RE: Update takes too long

    Igor Micev (4/27/2015)


    You can use the NOLOCK hint for srno without worries because u're reading an identity value.

    Can you please explain that statement Igor??

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Update takes too long

    MANY things could be at fault here:

    1) triggers doing bad stuff

    2) constraints doing bad stuff

    3) blocking by other activity (I go with this by default for a 60K row tale...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
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  • RE: RTRIM is not working as expected

    BEWARE the Scalar UDF though!! It has MANY downsides, including voiding the use of parallelism, preventing accurate estimates but the optimizer (with associated bad performance and bad concurrency), often forcing...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: RTRIM is not working as expected

    What is the table definition?

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
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  • RE: Page contention - what's the page?

    GAH!! That's what I get for (again) trying to answer questions with significant jet lag! 🙁

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    Kevin G. Boles
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  • RE: Page contention - what's the page?

    In addition to what Gail offered, there are a number of options for DBCC PAGE, and I think you can get a more detailed set of output that could be...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
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  • RE: Log Shipping Question

    As long as when primary and secondary are running the SQL Server service and SQL Agent are running they will fire their respective jobs and do what they are supposed...

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    Kevin G. Boles
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    SQL MVP 2007-2012
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  • RE: Performance issues by using cursors on a virtual server?

    Stan_Segers (4/15/2015)


    Oh, this will so much be a great learning experience..

    @kevin, hopefully your jet-lag will quickly fade... I very much care about those details. The current SQL 2012 is at...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Performance issues by using cursors on a virtual server?

    I came across one person that had substantial problems with row-by-row processing on SQL 2012. I am severely jet-lagged at the moment so I can't remember the details, and could...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

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