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  • RE: Query used to take 3 minutes, now takes 25+ minutes!

    Before killing the process that had been running for 7 hours, did you check see if it was was in a blocked state, what was blocking it, and wether it...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Big Data

    In the past most data orginated in a database because it was deemed important enough by users that they entered it manually (patient charts, student records, inventory, etc.).

    Today, the...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: CAREER ADVICE: Applying for DBA Jobs?

    Henrico Bekker (4/12/2012)


    When I used to interview someone, I would ask one unanswerable question

    I've done it as well... "how do you detach a Log Shipped tempdb that is in Read...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: CAREER ADVICE: Applying for DBA Jobs?

    Who wouldn't want six weeks of vacation, the option to work remotely from home every day, a personal assistant, and a $120,000 salary?

    However, if applicants were to write a description...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: remot query takes longer - local faster

    sqldba_newbie (4/12/2012)


    Eric M Russell (4/12/2012)


    sqldba_newbie (4/11/2012)


    Eric M Russell (4/10/2012)


    Consider implementing a pass-through style query using EXEC(<sql>) AT <servername> syntax. If this query must be implemented a View, then consider replicating...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: remot query takes longer - local faster

    sqldba_newbie (4/11/2012)


    Eric M Russell (4/10/2012)


    Consider implementing a pass-through style query using EXEC(<sql>) AT <servername> syntax. If this query must be implemented a View, then consider replicating or grabbing a copy...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Wasting Time

    I would not be anywhere near as knowledgeable, not at the level I am today, were it not for participating in discussion forums like SQLServerCentral. There are other non-IT things...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: "Variable" for switching Table Names

    ssssqlguy (4/9/2012)


    You can do what karamaswamy above mentioned; or you can also create an indexed view against these tables (assuming their schema is the same). This way, your queries...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: remot query takes longer - local faster

    Consider implementing a pass-through style query using EXEC(<sql>) AT <servername> syntax. If this query must be implemented a View, then consider replicating or grabbing a copy of the 3 remote...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: DB whitespace

    rummings (4/9/2012)


    the higher ups are super stingy with disk space.... we have to squeeze out all we can to run the system.

    Before deciding to shrink down the database, do some...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Documentation ideas?

    As a DBA who has just inherited a database with a lot of objects and little production control process in place, another thing you'll want to do is confirm that...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Documentation ideas?

    You may have already been looking at something like this, but the following will query table usage statistics:

    select

    t.name

    ,user_seeks

    ,user_scans

    ,user_lookups

    ,user_updates

    ,last_user_seek

    ,last_user_scan

    ,last_user_lookup

    ,last_user_update

    from

    sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats i JOIN

    sys.tables t ON (t.object_id = i.object_id)

    order by ( user_seeks + user_scans...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Documentation ideas?

    In addition to checking database scripts into source control, any deployment to QA or Production should be tracked in a change tracking system like TFS or Mercury Quality Center. That...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Limited permissions but able to delete data

    A login can inherit membership in the SYSADMIN role by membership in a windows domain group. You can confirm if a login account has been explicitly granted (or has inherited...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Performance issues on huge table (40 columns, 500M rows)

    aaron.reese (4/3/2012)


    The columns of interest are AccountID,UpdateDate, SubBal-A, SubBal-B,...SubBal-K

    ...

    Currently the table has an index on AccountID only and an index on UpdateDate only.

    both indexes are non-clustered

    ...

    The estimated query plan indicates...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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