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  • RE: Index defaults 1

    There' a way too common misbelief that a primary key is always clustered, end of story. I just didn't realise it was this common.

    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: Clustered Index Seek Causing Poor Performance - Suggestions For Indexes

    Please note: 3 year old problem.

    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: Log Backup Does Not Truncate the Log

    That article is incorrect (or outdated) in several places, it's missing a couple of cause of log growth and it is missing a lot of detail about fixing the problems....

    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: Facing deadlock issue more offen

    Timeouts are probably from normal blocking, not the deadlocks themselves. You probably need to spend some time tuning queries.

    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/

    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 manual index priority in a select query

    Yes, but I recommend you don't unless you know exactly whey the optimiser is not choosing the index you want and you are absolutely and copletely sure you know better...

    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 Performance Issue

    Please start a new thread for your problem, don't hijack someone else's. On the main forum page there's a button at the top 'Add Topic'

    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: Certification on 2008 or 2012 now?

    The exams are available now.

    I was replying to this:

    HymnsOfaTurtle (6/13/2012)


    Additionally, these new exams might be in Beta for a while right?

    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: Log Backup Does Not Truncate the Log

    Please read through this: 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

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  • RE: SP1 Failure, instance will not start, help needed now, please! Thank you.

    CheckDB all databases (especially master), if clean take backups of all system databases (other than TempDB). You don't want to have to go through this again...

    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: SP1 Failure, instance will not start, help needed now, please! Thank you.

    Yes and yes. If it doesn't start find the error log and look at what it says.

    Btw, are you willing to open a support case with MS if the service...

    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: Multiple Queries-Please Help

    Monitor the avg page density and if it is too low (for whatever your definition of too low is) rebuild or reorg the index, just as you do with 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: SP1 Failure, instance will not start, help needed now, please! Thank you.

    Kill the single-user mode in the command window (Ctrl-C), then start the service. Unless you messed with the service startup parameters is will come up as it always does.

    There's no...

    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: Multiple Queries-Please Help

    Oh, and one more clarification... There will never be an issue with free space being fragmented within a particular index/data page, as SQL automatically compacts pages if that is ever...

    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: SP1 Failure, instance will not start, help needed now, please! Thank you.

    If all you want to do is kill the single user mode and restart the service normally then just Ctrl-C in the SQL window, then go to services (or SQL...

    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: SP1 Failure, instance will not start, help needed now, please! Thank you.

    The window where you started SQL Server is just running SQL and outputting messages, nothing more. If you want to connect to it and run queries you need to open...

    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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