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  • RE: Help me shut up a vendor

    How much RAM is on your computer and how much of it is SQL Server using?

  • RE: SQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence of I/O Requests taking longer than 15 seconds

    There are MANY things that can cause slow IO, although it is often a combination of them that lead to the 15 sec warning (that is REALLY bad, btw, as...

  • RE: Database autgrows several hundreds of times when not needed

    sonal_anjaria (10/21/2009)


    I have been trying to find out how to view the "logs" when data file's grow, what tool did the person asking the question use to see the data...

  • RE: Relying on tuning advisor for indexing

    ed_elfrink (10/20/2009)


    TheSQLGuru -How about some examples of these "amazingly bad things" you say the tuning advisor has done to databases? I've used it a couple of times with great...

  • RE: Concatenating Rows

    pmcpherson (10/14/2009)


    Fantastic! This forum is making my week! Really! I just have one question now; how do you un-concatenate a string into rows efficiently?

    Search this forum (and...

  • RE: Concatenating Rows

    TheSQLGuru (10/14/2009)


    sauraviit, did you actually read the posts before you before making your post?? :w00t:

    There are several examples of the 'tsql variable trick' already posted. 🙂

  • RE: Concatenating Rows

    sauraviit, did you actually read the posts before you before making your post?? :w00t:

  • RE: size of msdb database

    Job histories and backup/restore histories are the things that take the most room over time in msdb. They can both be pruned using system stored procedures or maintenance plans.

  • RE: Speedup big database - MSSQL 2005

    Buy a server with 256GB of RAM and 16+cores of CPUs and your table scans should run quite quickly since you won't have to touch the disk at all! ...

  • RE: Procedure Cache Configuration

    You cannot explicitly configure the procedure cache. If you are on SP2+ then you have lower ratios of procedure cache than prior to that version, which actually could be...

  • RE: MAXDOP CPU 100%

    There are probably a dozen or more things you need to investigate and rule out before doing something like hinting maxdop. You should consider getting a professional tuner to...

  • RE: The Dynamic Tally or Numbers Table

    For me it was Hunt the Wumpus, hand-coded on my TRS-80 Model III circa 1979. I think there was another one I did, something that started with a 'Z'...

  • RE: The Dynamic Tally or Numbers Table

    The key thing to be learned here is that optimal varies GREATLY depending on the situation! Having many tricks up your sleeve for solving tsql problems (especially the common...

  • RE: The Dynamic Tally or Numbers Table

    Jeff, try your sample code without your beloved clustered PK. That eager index spool eats you alive. 74.5 cost and 2.6M IOs. The real world rarely has...

  • RE: The Dynamic Tally or Numbers Table

    Boy, the video game chatter has me realizing how long in the tooth I am getting as well! sigh...:cool:

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