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  • RE: Formatting date of birth using South African ID number

    Jason-299789 (11/9/2012)


    You have some serious problems and the person responsible for dropping the century part of the date should be taken down a dark ally. (I've been reading too many...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: BAK size compared to MDF size

    The backup is roughly the size of the data within the database. When restored, the dataase is recreated exactly *** it was at time of backup. Hence if a database...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Buffer Pool

    SQLSACT (11/9/2012)


    I'm trying to understand what happens to clean pages in the buffer pool (when a select statement brings pages into the buffer pool).

    What happens to the pages once the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to pass a Microsoft certification [70-432]

    Self-study is possible. As for your chances, no way to answer that, don't know what your knowledge is like. You should have some experience, the exam assumes a couple years...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Server 2005 Certification Dumps

    jyothimercy (11/8/2012)


    Pls send dumps link for increasing the knowledge

    I take it you didn't read (or just ignored) my comments above. Using dumps is cheating and using them or supplying them...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database in recovery at startup

    No, but you probably want to ensure that you don't have VLF fragmentation and that there;s sufficient IO bandwidth.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Include column VS Index Size

    panwar.jt (11/8/2012)


    So why it is called that Include column does not increase non-cluster index size......

    Where is that stated?

    Include columns won't increase the size of the index key (they're not part...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: rebuild on clustered index

    MyDoggieJessie (11/8/2012)


    how would rebuilding the PK affect the size of a data file? Isn't growth within a the clustered index directly proportional to the amount of data being written into...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database in recovery at startup

    Perfectly normal.What SQL has to do at startup is to open each database and run recovery on it. You can't prevent it, it's a required process.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Using ::fn_dblog() to find who deleted the rows in a table.

    Nope. All that's in the log is the user id. The transaction log is not an audit log. Rollbacks and database recovery do not require any information on the login,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: rebuild on clustered index

    Evil Kraig F (11/8/2012)


    From the same MSDN article:

    Rebuilding an index drops the index and creates a new one. In doing this, fragmentation is removed, disk space is reclaimed by compacting...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Correct VLF for Transaction log file

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/post/8-Steps-to-better-Transaction-Log-throughput.aspx

    http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Transaction-Log-VLFs-too-many-or-too-few.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: DB backup single user mode

    Restricted mode

    Shut the app down

    Disable logins

    several ways.

    The reason why not single user is that the single user doesn;t have to be you. If the app gets it, there's trouble.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Using ::fn_dblog() to find who deleted the rows in a table.

    Please don't cross post. It just results in people answering already answered questions.

    Alspo asked at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1382719-1526-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Using ::fn_dblog() to find who deleted the rows in a table.

    0x01 as a user sid is DBO, that's the user mapped to all sysadmin logins, sa and any other member of the sysadmin role. The log does not contain login...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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