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  • RE: MAXDOP - How many CPU's does it use

    does cost of threshold mean the time taken to complete the query when ran in serial

    Sort of... The optimizer tries to work out how long the query would take...

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  • RE: MAXDOP - How many CPU's does it use

    Paul, thanks for the clarification.

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  • RE: Restore System DBs to Another SQL Instance

    One good practice for a DR is that any task should be able to be done by someone outside the team that normally looks after the service. This means...

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  • RE: SQL Server logins: domain groups don't work

    It is established best practice in the security world that the people who grant rights to a given object should be different to the people who allow people to use...

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  • RE: MAXDOP - How many CPU's does it use

    Another aspect of MAXDOP is that it applies to each portion of the execution plan, not to the whole plan.

    If you are doing a SELECT from a single table using...

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  • RE: MAXDOP - How many CPU's does it use

    " The cost refers to an estimated elapsed time in seconds required to run the serial plan on a specific hardware configuration"

    Having heard an explanation of this from the Microsoft...

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  • RE: database restoration error

    I think you need to talk to Microsoft about this.

    If your backup gts created using Tape Format 1.240 on one operating system and canot be restored on another, using the...

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  • RE: setting up a 2 node cluster

    If you want to script the SQL 2008 cluster install, FineBuild can help. The current release will also create a MSDTC cluster if you want one.

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  • RE: can I upgrade only subscriber to 2008 and leave distributor and publication to 2005

    We use transactional replication and have a few updating subscribers. All of our subscribers were updated to SQL 2008 before we updated the publisher or distributor from SQL 2005....

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  • RE: Best Practice for Database Owner?

    You are right in saying the ownership chaining would have to be enabled in your own DB for its owners to gain elevated rights in master. But it is...

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  • RE: Houston, we have a problem

    There are a couple of viewpoints I could take over Houston...

    1) The missing functionality is serious, and the product is of little use to the enterprise without it.

    2) The available...

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  • RE: 2008 SQL Server Dev Edition Installation Error

    There are a few possible causes...

    1) Faulty install media. This does not often happen, and given the other messages is not likely to be the cause of your problem.

    2)...

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  • RE: Installing SQL Server 2008 R2

    Are you installing from a network drive or a local drive?

    The SQL Server install is not very tolerant of slow drives or slow systems. There are numerous timing tests...

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  • RE: Could not obtain exclusive lock on database 'MODEL'. Retry the operation later.

    If MSDB has Id 3 then you need to detach MSDB then attach MODEL as DB id 3. In order to detach MSDB you will need to stop SQL...

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  • RE: Identify SQL SERVER SetUP

    For SQL Server 2008 (and 2008 R2) you cannot tell from looking at the media if you are installing a 32-bit or 64-bit version of SQL Server. Neither can...

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