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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The Dixie Flatline (3/12/2014)


    SQLRNNR (3/12/2014)


    The Dixie Flatline (3/12/2014)


    I have a database. It doesn't work. Please advise.

    Thanks in advance.

    P.S. Please don't ask for DDL and sample data as...

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  • RE: sp_updatestats 0.3% sample?

    Dird (3/11/2014)


    OK thanks for the clarity. I guess I'll just add an extra step to fullscan on that particular table after doing an all-round sp_updatestats.

    Are you getting bad query plans...

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  • RE: High Memory is 70% & growing Fast

    This should help.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280359(v=sql.105).aspx

    If you're new to SQL Server, http://www.SQLSklls.com accidental DBA series of posts, and also their Misconceptions series are something I'd highly recommend.

    Also http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/category/sql-server/admin/ isn't bad

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  • RE: High Memory is 70% & growing Fast

    Exactly as Gail says, nothing.

    Briefly, when you start up SQL Server, as you run queries it takes the data from the discs to fulfil those queries. This is slow....

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  • RE: SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error

    dwain.c (2/26/2014)


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    kenneth.mofokeng (2/26/2014)


    I don't have clean backup. For some reason, my customer stopped weekly backup and the last backup is several month ago

    Since you don't have...

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  • RE: DB loss connectivity

    New Born DBA (2/26/2014)


    We have a client and they are 24/7 shop. We take our backup around 1 am central time (US/Canada) but we also have users accessing the DB...

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  • RE: SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error

    dwain.c (2/26/2014)


    kenneth.mofokeng (2/26/2014)


    I don't have clean backup. For some reason, my customer stopped weekly backup and the last backup is several month ago

    Since you don't have backup , try...

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  • RE: DB loss connectivity

    New Born DBA (2/25/2014)


    I just received an email saying that "The backup was running at that time, which could have froze things up for a moment".

    If they're talking about the...

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  • RE: Adhoc Vs Prepared/Procs - SQL Queries

    JoshDBGuy (2/25/2014)


    Doesn't the execution of thousands of ad-hoc queries bloat the procedure cache? I though that would cause some performance degradation.

    Absolutely.

    Even (IIRC) with the optimize for Ad-Hoc queries sticking plaster...

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  • RE: Dumb interview answers

    Fictional (probably) but on topic http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2004-06-23/

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  • RE: Dumb interview answers

    Gazareth (2/19/2014)


    Grant Fritchey (2/18/2014)


    "I can't believe you're asking me all these product specific questions. You shouldn't be writing your queries using product specific language because that eliminates the ability to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jasona.work (2/13/2014)


    Man, it got quiet in here...

    Is the watercooler empty or something?

    It's quiescent?

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  • RE: Foreign Keys: Essential or Academic?

    Evil Kraig F (2/13/2014)


    I'm going to fire a bombshell that will probably get me shot, but here it is:

    I rarely use FKs.

    .

    So you don't want free data integrity, and you...

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  • RE: Foreign Keys: Essential or Academic?

    venoym (2/13/2014)


    The developers built into the logic of both the application and the business logic in the DB ways to find almost every orphan and resolve it by...

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  • RE: Foreign Keys: Essential or Academic?

    GilaMonster (2/12/2014)


    Essential. Absolutely essential.

    I can't understand why he claims implementing relationships manually in the application (hence writing code to do so) could possibly be easier or less time consuming than...

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