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  • RE: PURPOSE OF TEMPORARY TABLES

    GilaMonster (2/16/2011)


    The other two cases I will use table variables are:

    1) When the table variable is not joined to any other tables for the final query. Maybe it's used to...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
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  • RE: PURPOSE OF TEMPORARY TABLES

    I advise my clients to only use table variables in 2 (pretty uncommon) scenarios:

    1) VERY high call volume sprocs where extra recompilations from temp tables may be an issue

    2) VERY...

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

  • RE: Combining clustering and database mirroring

    1) you are into some VERY complex stuff here that is CRITICAL to both high availability AND disaster recovery. you REALLY REALLY should get a qualified consultant on board...

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

  • RE: PURPOSE OF TEMPORARY TABLES

    You will get much better much more quickly by reading a few books on sql server development (and working through their examples) than you will by asking basic questions such...

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

  • RE: Performance tunig Fusion-IO

    Ramkumar (LivingForSQLServer) (2/15/2011)


    Kevin,

    as Server is running in 32 GB RAM, I forgot the possibility of keeping/reading all pages from memory irrespective of hard disk and fusion-io.

    As you suggested, I 've...

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

  • RE: Detected but now Prevent This Deadlock

    rameshbhumi (2/14/2011)


    Hi,

    We are also seeing these Queries getting triggered from BO Server to Database. I would like to know what exactly the purpose of these Queries. It will be Great...

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

  • RE: Tuning on parallel processing

    sql_butterfly (2/15/2011)


    Any help ?

    You have a very complex situation here and you have been hunting-and-pecking on a forum for 10 days now. Way past time to hire a performance...

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

  • RE: Marked for unload due to memory pressure

    alen teplitsky (2/14/2011)


    if the OS and SQL is x64 you should enable lock pages in memory

    Lock pages in memory would be about the worst thing you could do here -...

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

  • RE: Performance tunig Fusion-IO

    Michael Valentine Jones (2/14/2011)


    Before you implemented the fusionIO drive, did you verify that the server was actually IO bound so that you could expect to see an increase in performance?

    If...

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

  • RE: Proc runs slow only during business hours?

    Steve-3_5_7_9 (2/15/2011)


    You should also look at disk contention (waits mentioned above). Disk contention will cause high cpu as processes are waiting for the disk and queuing up. SQL...

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

  • RE: Anyone Monitoring SQL Server from a Blackberry ?

    IIRC Idera's Diagnostic Manager has had a mobile interface for quite a few years now. I don't recall for what mobile platforms, but I think blackberry was one of...

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

  • RE: Database monitor tool

    What do you mean by manage?? If you mean do things like SSMS does then I think DBArtisan from Embarcadero is a great tool. If you mean MONITOR...

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

  • RE: Proc runs slow only during business hours?

    perform waitstats and IO stall analysis during day. Likely issues are too little RAM, too slow IO, BLOCKING, too little CPU power.

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

  • RE: Performance tunig Fusion-IO

    You have 32GB of memory. If you have small data, EVERYTHING will be sitting in the buffer pool in RAM and drive speed will be virtually irrelevant except for...

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

  • RE: How to improve performance of a dumb query?

    1) get rid of functions around columns in exists clauses

    2) refactor exists into single exists

    3) do not use explicit field for exists (unless NULLable issues are afoot) - use *...

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

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