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  • RE: Database backup failed - error 1117

    Not following. Can you explain more please?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Booked 70-450

    anthony.green (5/28/2012)


    To be honest I dont think I'm ready for both, so today is going to be cram cram cram with Transcenders, re-reading the 70-432 book and also Tom Carpenters...

    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: To Gila Monster ----now suspect database

    GilaMonster (5/26/2012)


    Please don't start multiple threads for the same problem.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1306941-266-1.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: Unable to shrink datafiles

    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: How to Become a MCDBA ?

    The MCDBA certification was for SQL Server 7 and SQL Server 2000 and the exams have been retired for some years now.

    For the 2008 and 2012 certs see http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-sql-server.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: Unable to shrink datafiles

    Could be there's something still in use, held active at the end of the file. Try shrinking in smaller chunks, that often works better than one large chunk.

    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: Unable to shrink datafiles

    What exact options did you chose? If you don't tell us that, we can't help you.

    Shrinkdatabase/shrinkfile is how you reduce the size of the data file.

    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: Unable to shrink datafiles

    What command did you run?

    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: Forcing Query Plan.

    permono.sam (5/26/2012)


    1. first time run, it took so much time (3-5 secs). second time run, it took only 1 sec. It happened same on next day (server...

    Gail Shaw
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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: how should i handle date time.

    Make sure that you always write string literals in a format that can't be misunderstood - yyyy-mm-dd, then there will be no 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: Database backup failed - error 1117

    Do you have an unbroken chain of log backups from that 10 day old backup right up to today? Has the DB been switched to simple recovery any time since...

    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: Forcing Query Plan.

    You sure you're seeing a delay from plan compilation, not SQL having to pull the data from disk vs cache? That query's simple, shouldn't take more than few ms to...

    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: Attach Database failed for server 'M3'

    seven.srikanth (5/26/2012)


    Try attaching to Higher Version of SQL server, if attaching works fix it. detach it and attach it back to SQL Server 2000.

    I'm not sure, that this will work....

    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: Attach Database failed for server 'M3'

    Please post the outcomes and messages here, not elsewhere. Keeping things in one place makes problems far easier to solve.

    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: To Gila Monster ----now suspect database

    Please don't start multiple threads for the same problem.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1306941-266-1.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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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