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  • RE: SQL Server data storage type

    The binary information is the actual data.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: complicated query for me :)

    For future reference you'll often get quicker help if you provide the table definitions and sample data in a usable format, not just a description.

    I'm guessing as to data types,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Restore the backup of SQLServer 2008 R2 X64 in SQLServer 2008 R2 X86

    Then it got damaged in the copy.

    If both servers are 2008 R2 then you can restore backups between them. x86 vs x64 never matters

    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: complicated query for me :)

    What's the logic behind that? Why is 16:00 in the results but 18:00 isn't?

    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: Geeky Books

    36 this year so far.

    My library (planned is not complete, lots of other books planned not added, need to go through the piles on the table)

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/?now_reading_library=true

    Most recent 'geeky' book. That...

    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 the backup of SQLServer 2008 R2 X64 in SQLServer 2008 R2 X86

    Yes, restoring a 2008 R2 backup from an x64 server to 2008 R2 on x86 works fine. Done it several times.

    Check that the x64 doesn't have some 3rd party backup...

    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 find transactions which are not back up ?

    Safer just to always take it.

    There will always be something in the log, whether it's just the record of the previous log backup, a checkpoint or a user transaction. Figuring...

    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 data storage type

    Storage type?

    SQL stores data in binary form within the data pages.

    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 find transactions which are not back up ?

    Suresh B. (7/18/2012)


    TLOG backup does not contain entries which are already backedup.

    Not entirely true.

    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 find transactions which are not back up ?

    Why?

    That complicates the log backup process, it complicates restores as you won't know what files to expect.

    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: File & Filegroup restore problem

    You haven't completely restored the filegroup. Without knowing what you did in the restore, hard to say what need doing, but that restore process isn't finished or it failed.

    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: Memory -SQL Server 2005

    Yes.

    Yes.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: If Variable is Blank Then No Where Clause

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/03/19/catch-all-queries/

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/09/15/multiple-execution-paths/

    And to toss fuel on the fire, several of the query patterns mentioned in this thread would cause all sorts of hell when the plans are reused with different parameter...

    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?

    capn.hector (7/17/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (7/17/2012)


    Really???

    does not seem to be the same welsh as when i first started posting.

    or is it

    I don't know. There have been some seriously strange questions from him....

    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: Query Help

    I was hoping you'd just post it so I wouldn't have to download, virus scan then open a file. No matter.

    Clustered index is on the Date column and then 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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