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  • RE: Massive IOs!

    Evil Kraig F (10/27/2011)


    ....but your description and answers reminded of a quick hit fix I was able to do at a site once. Kinda shot myself in the foot...

  • RE: Massive IOs!

    That's a shotgun criticism. Could you be a little more surgical? 😀

    If you're educated about proper indexing, the information Performance Dashboard provides can be used in a highly selective manner.

    LC

  • RE: One of the step running late all of the Sudden

    Have you ruled out any long executing SQL Agent jobs? Using SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Agent, Jobs, you can right click on each job to "View History" and see...

  • RE: Massive IOs!

    jshurak,

    It has been my experience that if a database management system is performing a high number of physical reads, then it must need the data it's retrieving from disk, since...

  • RE: Provisioning SQL disk on a Compellent SAN

    I think you and I have different perspectives on things. I was a software developer for over 25 years, wrote about a half a million lines of source code in...

  • RE: Provisioning SQL disk on a Compellent SAN

    Performance Dashboard is an add-on feature for SQL Server.

    Type this into Google and you'll get a bunch of hits: "sql server performance dashboard". Pick the selection that is appropriate...

  • RE: Provisioning SQL disk on a Compellent SAN

    johnzabroski (7/22/2011)


    I saw a demo of this the other day from a Dell rep. He claimed that Compellant's system architect said that performance tuning these tiered SANs is "as...

  • RE: interview questions

    paul.starr (4/17/2009)


    any info on really good interview questions for a sql server dba?

    In addition to everything else that has been mentioned in this thread, I would recommend that you study...

  • RE: How to release space used by a table?

    Jeffrey Williams-493691 (6/15/2011)


    I have not validated the level of fragmentation after an insert, and a delete only leaves space available on the page and doesn't actually cause any fragmentation.

    I agree....

  • RE: How to release space used by a table?

    Jeffrey Williams-493691 (6/14/2011)


    Lee,

    ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA - Holds variable length data stored in varchar, nvarchar, varbinary, or sql_variant columns that exceed the 8,060 byte row size limit."

    I believe the above is related to...

  • RE: How to release space used by a table?

    I am still researching this topic. From Books Online, index listing for "IN_ROW_DATA allocation unit":

    "An Index Allocation Map (IAM) page maps the extents in a 4-gigabyte (GB) part of a...

  • RE: How to release space used by a table?

    Thanks, Perry, for pointing me toward that article. And thanks, Jeff Moden, for writing the article on Tally tables. I'll be using that information in the future.

    Jeffrey, I created a...

  • RE: How to release space used by a table?

    Jeffrey,

    I won't be convinced until I execute your code myself.

    Reading further in Books Online, in the "Row-overflow data" index listing:

    "Surpassing the 8,060-byte row-size limit might affect performance because SQL...

  • RE: How to release space used by a table?

    Jeffrey,

    I've read your email and it makes sense. However, I can't execute your code and I'd like to.

    It is not intuitively obvious to me what a Tally table is. Please...

  • RE: How to release space used by a table?

    Jeffrey Williams-493691 (5/20/2011)I also need to point out that the discussion concerning fill factor has left out one key point. If the table in question has any varchar columns,...

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