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  • RE: BUG? - View returns columns out of order !

    Hi all

    Response from the MS SQL Server group...im still not happy with it [:-D]

    > Its a bug, you guys wont admit it! 🙂

    No its a not bug, you won't admit...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Too large diffrential bacup file

    Hi

    9Gb? cripes. The key issues with differentials is that its based on whole extents, rather than individual page changes, even if a single page in the 64k extent has...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: HyperThreading Bugs?

    Email the base table creates and I will try on my hyperthreaded machine..


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: BUG? - View returns columns out of order !

    also...

    select A.*, B.bid

    from aaaaa as A left outer join bbbbb as B

    on A.aid = B.bid_aid

    raw query in query analyser works a treat:

    1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: BUG? - View returns columns out of order !

    Hi all

    Note that:

    dbcc freeproccache

    exec sp_recompile ccccc

    all didnt work to resolve it, edit the view in EM, add a space, OK.. and all is fine again.

    Cheers

    Ck


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Comparison of Business Intelligence Strategies between SQL and Oracle

    Hi there

    One item you may have overlooked - its important to remember that the "user experience" in all of this is poorly served in both areanas of dbms's. For...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Is the Schema Still Needed?

    Hi Steve

    Good point to bring up actually.

    This sort of concept comes from the oracle world, but were see a clearer distinction between "user" and "owner" of objects. Here in...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: CheckDB Errors and weird fix

    Hi there

    I kicked all users

    Put DB into single user mode..

    dbcc checkdb('corpsys', REPAIR_REBUILD) with ALL_ERRORMSGS

    We had repeated errors over some objects, each run produced a range of user dumps. The...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: SQL Server Security: The db_executor Role

    Hi Brian

    Yep, deal with this one regularly and its real pain if there are large numbers of stored procs and you have inherited a system where "dbo" privs are the...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Why is XML support in SQL Server beneficial?

    Hi there

    Its common amongst enterprise developers that XML IN/OUT strings are used as parameters for class methods. As such, you see the custom wrappering of a record set (non-xml...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Distribution Statistics

    Hi there

    I believe they do, especially if the so called "parameter sniffing" feature of sqlserver is still around. Run something like this for example:

    DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS (mytable, PK_MyPrimaryKey)

    this returns info...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: dual PIII or P4?

    whoops! forgot that one 🙂 and for some sites its a big issue.


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: diff plan generated if used stored proc parms

    Hi All

    See this:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22parameter+sniffing%22+%22bart+duncan%22++group:microsoft.public.sqlserver.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=microsoft.public.sqlserver.*&selm=uBWmjRecBHA.163%40cppssbbsa01.microsoft.com&rnum=10

    and this from Brian Moran:

    Actually... this is expected behavior and has been since SQL 4.2.

    Here's what is probally happening...

    Oddly enough... changing the number of rows returned by a...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Clustering and Disaster Recovery

    Hi there

    At the end of the day, think "simplicity". Log shipping is very simple, and yes, you can get small glitches from time to time (typically related to disk space...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: dual PIII or P4?

    Hi

    Even a simple check, like comparing a dual AMD MP2000 with p4 3Ghz sees, most of the time, the dual box leading the way, hyper-threading or not. The key...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

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