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  • RE: query to find index on a column

    sysindexes and syscolumns are deprecated, should not be used any longer, will be removed from a future version of SQL Server. The replacements are sys.indexes and sys.columns.

    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: How to Set Minimum and Maximum memory in AWE SQL2005

    If you have 16 GB of memory, you do not want the /3GB switch enabled, it can be harmful. I suggest you remove that switch. You just need the /PAE...

    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: Rebuliding Indexes

    Evil Kraig F (10/9/2012)


    YarHad (10/9/2012)


    GilaMonster (10/9/2012)


    Index rebuilds don't get written into the SQL Server error log. You could add a piece to your maintenance tasks to log that a rebuild...

    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: Rebuliding Indexes

    Not into the SQL Server error log (text file).

    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: Restore database cross edition

    You cannot restore down-version ever. It's not about standard edition and enterprise, it's because you're trying to restore a 2008 R2 DB onto SQL 2008.

    Script objects, export data, recreate DB...

    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: is it Okey to use.... ORDER BY while creating View???

    It's only valid when you have a row-limiting TOP. So in you want the view to return the 10 most recent rows, then the view gets a TOP 10 and...

    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: Rebuliding Indexes

    Index rebuilds don't get written into the SQL Server error log. You could add a piece to your maintenance tasks to log that a rebuild was done if you like,...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Rebuliding Indexes

    What do you mean by 'activity log'?

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: How to Set Minimum and Maximum memory in AWE SQL2005

    Is the PAE switch present in boot.ini? (or is it a 64-bit OS?)

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: How to Set Minimum and Maximum memory in AWE SQL2005

    Setting AWE on requires a service restart to take effect.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Tuning profiling in SQL Server 2012

    Ok, let me rephrase that.

    Don't use Profiler GUI against a production server. It is known to be cause issues (and that's all the way from SQL 2000 or earlier). For...

    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: SQL Memory

    Please don't post multiple threads for the same question. I answered that question for you yesterday: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1369595-391-1.aspx

    The way you limit memory usage in SQL is by setting max server memory,...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: query to find index on a column

    Sure. The catalog views involved are sys.indexes, sys.index_columns and sys.columns (and maybe sys.tables)

    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: Advantages in Multiple Files per Filegroup per Spindle ?

    No advantages. It doesn't allow more IO threads (all threads in SQL can issue IOs to any file), it doesn't spread out IO load. As long as you're talking just...

    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: MDF and LDF locations

    For recoverability, definitely. For performance, maybe. What's the IOPS for the array? What's the required IOPS for the app?

    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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