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  • RE: How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates?

    There are still some spelling mistakes and strange grammar in there.

    "Experience monitoring and fine-tuning SQL Server system performance."

    Should be

    "Experienced in monitoring and fine-tuning SQL Server system performance."

    "Prepare for and upgrade...

    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 2008 Table Partitioning

    Depends. Why are you considering partitioning?

    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: Please Provide Me with Best Solution

    Obtain from somewhere a list of all banks (another database, government info, etc), then use SSIS fuzzy lookup.

    Without that list of all banks, that's impossible to solve automatically. How would...

    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 prevent deadlocks

    Books Online -> extended events, or read over Jonathan Kehayias's blog

    A very quick google search turned up:

    http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2010/12/13/an-xevent-a-day-13-of-31-the-system-health-session.aspx

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630282.aspx

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd822788%28v=sql.100%29.aspx

    and of particular relevance

    http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Getting-historical-deadlock-info-using-extended-events.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: How to prevent deadlocks

    No need for a trace. On SQL 2008 deadlock graphs are written into the extended events system health session.

    Post the deadlock graph here, we can give you some suggestions on...

    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 manage Transaction Log.

    Update in chunks, maybe 50 000 rows at a time.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG

    GilaMonster (7/31/2012)


    If you want to do it in chunks, each chunk must be a separate transaction or all you've done is increase the amount of code written for the same...

    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: Recover the database during undo \ redo phase

    Jayanth_Kurup (7/31/2012)


    If you have the option you should plan for a piece meal restore.

    How is that going to save on recovery time? Or total time to restore the entire database?

    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: Recover the database during undo \ redo phase

    You'll just have to wait. Most likely the log is severely fragmented (lots of VLFs) and the recovery portion of the restore takes forever as a result.

    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: FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG

    Indianrock (7/31/2012)


    or this:

    WHILE (1 = 1)

    BEGIN

    BEGIN TRANSACTION

    UPDATE TOP (1000) [Order Details]

    SET ...

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Evil Kraig F (7/31/2012)


    Ugh, sick for a week blows. I miss anything of import since last Tuesday?

    Vacation! Mine! (no, you're not invited 🙂 )

    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: Discussion: is e-Commerce making a mockery of SQL Server?

    Premature optimisation is the process of making design decisions or modifications based on assumed performance improvement without testing, benchmarking and verifying the change.

    "Foreign keys are slow so I won't create...

    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 manage Transaction Log.

    sestell1 (7/31/2012)


    Setting the database to SIMPLE recovery model will minimize the amount of logging done

    Won't help here. Updates are fully logged in all recovery models. A single update uses the...

    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: Recover the database during undo \ redo phase

    What was the exact restore statement that you ran?

    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: FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG

    If you don't mind the database being transactionally inconsistent at best, completely inaccessible at worst, sure, go right ahead. Just make sure you have backups because you will run into...

    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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