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  • RE: Install Windows Failover Clustering and Availability Group on Existing SQL Server Instance

    Being quite blunt and straight-forward with this reply. I have seen issues over and over with what you are pursuing:

    1) What is your experience with windows clustering and SQL...

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

  • RE: Incremental backup set, how better setup changes/new tracking?

    mario17 (11/25/2014)


    Hi,

    I'm bit new for this, for now I see that we can do trigger + setup kind of audit table with all content to be backed.

    I suspect that it...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
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  • RE: Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function

    TomThomson (9/25/2014)


    sfrostx (9/25/2014)


    Can anyone help me understand why the second and third selects in the following generate an error?

    I don't understand it at all. An interesting twist is that...

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

  • RE: SQL server SORT order problem

    Because it doesn't. Please find me your documentation that states ORDER BY with your collation will follow ASCII order.

    create table testtable2 (n tinyint not null, c varchar(1) not null)

    GO

    ;WITH

    L0...

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

  • RE: Best Practices

    Luis Cazares (11/19/2014)


    ramana3327 (11/19/2014)


    That is not related to parameter sniffing.

    Why because we are passing 3 input parameters. Those are default parameters. We are not changing either in SP or Report...

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

  • RE: Best Practices

    The most difficult part will be finding someone that lives up to the name "heavy hitter".

    Actually that part is simple - I know a guy ... 😎

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

  • RE: Defragging the TempDB Drive that uses Netapp Storage

    1) Your metric of 80% fragmented isn't really useful. You can have 5 20GB file chunks for tempdb with 4 of them not being adjacent to each other and...

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

  • RE: FCI and Availability Groups

    Brandie Tarvin (11/14/2014)


    Kevin, thanks for the links. Now I have more questions.

    Is Primary Replica the database of origin or just the first replica that was set up?

    Per the above...

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

  • RE: 2012 always on and reporting

    Based on what you posted, I am not sure if you understand or not. Your post seems to apply when you have SI/RCSI on the PRIMARY.

    This is...

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

  • RE: 2012 always on and reporting

    The databases are NOT "independent" when you read from an AG secondary. You wind up modifying the PRIMARY records under the covers with the 14-byte row-version pointer. Most...

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

  • RE: AlwaysOn High Availability features Disabled

    I will add that you must be on Enterprise (or Developer) Edition of SQL Server to use them at all.

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

  • RE: FCI and Availability Groups

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff878253(v=sql.110).aspx

    Search for whitepaper: Offloading Read-Only Workloads to Secondary Replicas

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2011/12/22/alwayson-impact-of-mapping-reporting-workload-to-snapshot-isolation-on-readable-secondary.aspx

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

  • RE: Functions vs Stored Procs

    Jeff Moden (11/12/2014)


    SQLJocky (11/12/2014)


    So I inherited this server that has a ton of UDF's written as simple select statements (at least one incoming parameter like start date and then return...

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

  • RE: FCI and Availability Groups

    Hey Brandie!! Please do make sure you REALLY know what your objectives/needs are and that you are doing things correctly to get you there. There are SOOO many...

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

  • RE: Recurrent Balance that resets when hitting a value

    Be careful. Recursive CTEs can be DREADFULLY poor performers!!

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

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