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  • RE: Temp db log file is growing .

    No, it won't release space. If the log is not growing more, leave it.

    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 do I understand 'merge join without sort'?

    It's an Ordered False operation. The thing is, that's actually a cross join. There's no join predicate at all. All rows qualify for that predicate so there's no ordering necessary,...

    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: Primary key column order

    Yup, it'll do exactly that. If nothing seeks on Col1 alone reversing the order of the columns will give you seeks.

    Just bear in mind you'll need to drop the pk...

    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 SERVER Performance

    You can post your problems here and people will probably help you. That said it sounds like you're asking for free consulting....

    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: Changing FileGroup for File Name

    The seperate steps are in Books Online. What exactly are you having trouble with and what are the commands you're 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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  • RE: Left Anti Semi Join - performance issue

    TheSQLGuru (8/28/2012)


    Personally I think that is a better query in any case, the IN's just offend my delicate sensibilities. 🙂

    Why?

    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: Temp db log file is growing .

    Add more drive space

    Figure out what's preventing TempDB's log from being reused and resolve that problem

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Transaction+Log/72488/

    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: MDF File of MS SQL Server 2008 is Corrupted

    Exact messages please. Also what's in the SQL Server error 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

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  • RE: Statement Failures Within TRANSACTIONS

    Hadn't noticed that because I use TRY .. CATCH all the time. Honestly, you should be catching errors and handling them, not just silently rolling stuff back.

    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 SERVER Performance

    Seriously, if this is a critical problem and you don't have any knowledge of performance tuning, get someone in to help.

    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 SERVER Performance

    http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/

    http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/

    If it's critically important and no one has performance tuning experience you may need to hire a consultant.

    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: Statement Failures Within TRANSACTIONS

    There is one. See the blog post I referenced.

    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: Restore Database

    sp_attach_db is deprecated, included only for backward compatibility with SQL 2000 and should not be used.

    The replacement is CREATE DATABASE ... FOR ATTACH, details in Books Online.

    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: Statement Failures Within TRANSACTIONS

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2011/05/17/on-transactions-errors-and-rollbacks/

    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 reduce SQL Server memory usage?

    How much memory is used is dependant on what you set for max server memory and what else runs on the server. Please read the chapter that Anthony linked.

    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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