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  • RE: Dumb? SQL Question

    Eugene Elutin (10/15/2012)


    ... There wouldn't be any overhead since the DB isn't querying anything to get the value of [a].

    ...

    Except the fact that this will lead to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: how do i upgrade my sql server 2008 r2 x86 to sql server 2008 r2 x64 ?

    Uninstall the 32-bit version. Install the 64-bit version. Take backups of the system databases and detach all user databases before then after you've installed the 64-bit restore the system DBs...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I have to agree, some of the comments I've had have been so strange that you just can't get anything useful out of them.

    Grant and I got something like 'Next...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Differential vs LOG bAckup

    Nope. Maybe read the last two articles I linked above.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Differential vs LOG bAckup

    Abu Dina (10/15/2012)


    Bulk recovery - Bulk operations are minimally logged - other operations are logged as normal.

    But that's true for simple recovery as well.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Differential vs LOG bAckup

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175526.aspx

    Managing Transaction Logs[/url]

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/75461/

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Recovery+models/89664/

    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: Performance issue

    The CX packet wait means queries are running in parallel, nothing more. It does not automatically mean you need to reduce maxdop (and certainly not to 1)

    What you need to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Select column name and values.

    Ok, why, why, why, why are you wanting to do this? I hope this isn't for a production system, because it's far from good design.

    You need to use dynamic SQL....

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Trying to view properties of the Database

    You cannot insert a row to a system table (and those views are views of the system tables).

    The grant statement I posted grants the permission that you say you...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Checkpoint - Log Backups

    For a VLF to be marked inactive by a log backup, none of the log records within that VLF must be needed for anything. Anything includes checkpoint, active transaction, replication,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Checkpoint - Log Backups

    Active. The log records are still needed by something, in this case the checkpoint.

    A VLF is only inactive when none of the log records in it are needed for anything.

    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: Shrink of data file - DBCC SHRINKFILE - taking a long time and not completing - stuck at 99% completion

    Marios Philippopoulos (10/13/2012)


    I found out that this data file contains data from a text column.

    Could this be the reason I am having trouble shrinking the file?

    Yes it is. The structure...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Unable to find which tables are in a large filegroup

    Very normal with LOBs, they do take huge amounts of time to move around. You just have to wait.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Unable to find which tables are in a large filegroup

    You should be able to. As long as you just shrink the files with the TEXT it shouldn't even cause the usual fragmentation. Log pages are arranged differently than index...

    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: Can't find SQL Server 2008 R2 Instance

    Did you install the database engine, or just the client tools?

    Is the service listed in service manager? Is it running?

    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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