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  • RE: How Nonclustered index uses Clustered index

    Take a read through these.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68439/

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68563/

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68636/

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  • RE: Witness Server DB Mirroring

    Is there a witness server?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Memory Utilization Advise

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/jonathan/post/How-much-memory-does-my-SQL-Server-actually-need.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Returning everything through a left outer join

    Your join is the wrong way around. Left join means all row from LEFT table, but the table that you want all rows from is on the right.

    FROM #A1

    LEFT...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DATABASE CRASHED-Urgent Help

    Jai-SQL DBA (6/10/2012)


    I still need to know the Steps \Queries how to recover the Files from Point 2.

    Really? What was unclear about what I said?

    GilaMonster (6/10/2012)


    Restore from backup if...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to convert all PK columns in database from numeric(12,0) to int

    Yes, clustered index columns should be as narrow as possible, 9 bytes is not wide. Even with a nice tool to do the work, you still have the time it...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to prove a server has too many connections?

    The first thing to check would be to see if someone's fiddled with the max worker threads setting. It generally should be left at default unless there is very, very,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database Configuration

    You should probably speak to your system admin. There's no way we're going to know what the right settings are for an app on your network.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Help me: TOP is not allowed inside CTE

    Top 1 without order by? So you just want any random row from the table? Doesn't really make much sense....

    Please post table definitions, sample data and desired output. Read this...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DATABASE CRASHED-Urgent Help

    Perry Whittle (6/10/2012)


    are all talking scenario here or the actual configuration of your database?

    I suspect the latest question is just a theoretical config for an broad question.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to do peer to peer Load Balancing in SQL Server 2008

    Start by reading these:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/cc917714.aspx

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/scaleout.mspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Transaction log expansions

    Please note: 4 year old thread

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Keep Track of 10 Password's History Table.

    Table password history:

    UserID

    Password : varbinary (you are hashing passwords of course)

    PasswordStartDate

    PasswordEndDate

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DATABASE CRASHED-Urgent Help

    Jai-SQL DBA (6/10/2012)


    Point2.In case anything goes wrong with my secondary Filegroup....can you help What would be the Steps to Recover files..In Case We can

    Restore from backup if you need the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to convert all PK columns in database from numeric(12,0) to int

    Bouke Bruinsma (6/10/2012)


    By the way I thought that since numeric is not native the CPU has to convert it before knowing how to deal with it.

    Heh????

    If you're talking about the...

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