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  • RE: Will partitioning help?

    andersg98 (5/22/2012)


    Yes. The concept is called 'partition elimination'. Especially when scanning the table for a date range, the optimizer will realize it only has to scan the current...

    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 Transaction Log growing at 3-4GB per hour!!

    Take a read through this: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Transaction+Logs/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: Difference between Fragementation in percent vs Page count in Index physical stats.

    Page count is the number of pages that the data in the table takes up, each page is 8kb. The only reliable way to decrease that is to delete data.

    Don'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: cmd KILLED/ROLLBACK process for 7 hours

    Watch it over time and see if it is using CPU and doing more IOs

    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: cmd KILLED/ROLLBACK process for 7 hours

    Same as above.

    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: measure PAE using or not?

    32 bit OS and 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

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  • RE: cmd KILLED/ROLLBACK process for 7 hours

    it's probably not doing anything, you can confirm that by watching sys.dm_exec_requests, the CPU and reads columns. You will very likely need to restart sometime to get rid of it,...

    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: cmd KILLED/ROLLBACK process for 7 hours

    Restart the SQL 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Relation between Page id and File id?

    Page numbers are just sequential, starting at 0 and increasing per file. Hence pages are identified by the format 1:43, the 43rd page in file 1.

    p.s. If you want 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: Table data Corrupted

    That's not the full output. If you want an accurate assessment of the damage and your options, please post the full and unedited output of the checkDB command (or save...

    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: Bulk Log reconvery model

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Recovery+models/89664/

    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: Does the database with huge ldf file takes long time to restore?

    There are two aspects to this:

    - Size of the log file

    - Size of the active portion of the log

    If the log file does not exist (so restoring 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: microsoft support - http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=SQL

    Short of calling Microsoft, probably not.

    Why is it important though? The only thing that will tell you is how long they've been out of support.

    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: Applying Transaction logs to an O/S backup

    There's a difference between a file-level snapshot (which Steve it thinking of) and a VDI SAN snapshot backup which really is a full database backup with some really weird SAN...

    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: Is this right Microsoft SQL Server forum?

    This is as good a place as any to ask.

    Please put questions in their own threads, with a descriptive title. That increase the chance that someone will answer you...

    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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