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  • RE: High number of databases

    nuth (12/2/2016)


    What are the best practices when we have more than 350+ databases on a single AlwaysOn Group. I see issues like:

    1. When connecting the to the instance, it takes...

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  • RE: Only perform cleanup with Ola Hallengren's maintenance scripts

    Still sick and jet lagged, but what you said makes sense to me. You simply must make sure you have the FULL backup that is the basis for any DIFF/TLOG...

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    Kevin G. Boles
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  • RE: Is there a way to extract only credit card numbers from text

    SQL CLR Regex would be the way I would go honestly. IIRC someone actually already built a regular expression system for SQL Server using that.

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  • RE: RAMDisk? Use it for TempDB?

    Can you explain why you cannot put an SSD in the box and drop tempdb on that?

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    Kevin G. Boles
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  • RE: Is there a way to extract only credit card numbers from text

    PATINDEX gives you the position of the start of the match. So just SUBSTRING them out. The sneaky part here is doing it in a single pass. Once again my...

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  • RE: CREATE FUNCTION with a WHILE LOOP

    patelxx (12/1/2016)


    I am learning and new to CREATE FUNCTIONS - how to I add a WHILE LOOP in a function:

    CREATE FUNCTION fn_list_the_number(@count INT)

    RETURNS TABLE

    AS

    RETURN

    (

    WHILE (@count <= 10)

    BEGIN

    PRINT CAST(@count AS...

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    Kevin G. Boles
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  • RE: OUTPUT

    [myexcel]...['Company'] does not look like a valid object identifier to me.

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  • RE: TempDb File Sizing

    Jeff Moden (12/1/2016)


    There's no way in hell that I'd enable TF 1117. It doesn't just affect TempDB and I don't want the nearly 90 temporal files/filegroups for a 600GB...

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    Kevin G. Boles
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  • RE: Only perform cleanup with Ola Hallengren's maintenance scripts

    Mike Scalise (12/1/2016)


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    Mike Scalise (12/1/2016)


    Ohh. My apologies. I thought you were making a general recommendation for running Ola's scripts.

    Yes, I could see how setting that flag in the command...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
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  • RE: Only perform cleanup with Ola Hallengren's maintenance scripts

    Mike Scalise (12/1/2016)


    Ohh. My apologies. I thought you were making a general recommendation for running Ola's scripts.

    Yes, I could see how setting that flag in the command might achieve the...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
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  • RE: Database design

    sandy-833685 (12/1/2016)


    AlertsSize Bytes Per Row

    dbo.IRST6553.6

    dbo.Ulog5461.33333

    dbo.VAE8192

    dbo.IRR8192

    dbo.Rdata8192

    dbo.InfoData81920

    dbo.IRTrans49152

    dbo.IRC16384

    dbo.Transactions65536

    dbo.ARPin16384

    dbo.IRRPT32768

    Total Bytes298734.9333

    Above is the details size in bytes for per transactions which and total size comes approx - 300 KB, Yes Every table has clustered and...

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    Kevin G. Boles
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  • RE: RAMDisk? Use it for TempDB?

    Options/thoughts:

    1) RTFM (Read the "Fine" Manual) for Simplivity and find out how to force certain files to stay resident in flash storage, assuming your system has such.

    2) Deduplication has...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
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  • RE: TLOGS

    cbrammer1219 (11/30/2016)


    So I have inherited a system that is being backed up with ola.hallengren suggested ways, however when I started here there are some of the databases that the TLOGs...

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
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  • RE: Only perform cleanup with Ola Hallengren's maintenance scripts

    Hmm, I thought you said you wanted to just delete backup files WITHOUT taking any actual backups. 🙂

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    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
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  • RE: Only perform cleanup with Ola Hallengren's maintenance scripts

    Ahh, well, that's what happens when you post after days of being sick and starting an international trip. :hehe:

    Taking a closer review (albeit after being sick for more days and...

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

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