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  • RE: Hash Partitioning

    On the point of hash partitioning, correct. If you just want to spread a table over multiple drives, create multiple files in the filegroup and SQL will do it's proportional...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Memory utilization & Perfromance

    Tune your queries, it's likely to be as simple as that.

    I have 2 articles at Simple Talk on finding the cause of poor performance in SQL, don;t have the links...

    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: Hash Partitioning

    You are highly unlikely to achieve anything other than adding complexity and wasting time. Partitioning is not a performance optimisation (mostly), it's for ease of maintenance, loading and deleting rows....

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Query Cost 27%

    Evil Kraig F (5/18/2012)


    I think I'll go re-read your blog a few times until it gets better stuck in my head. 🙂

    That's not on my blog. It's stuff I've learned...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Query Cost 27%

    Evil Kraig F (5/18/2012)


    Apologies for the confusion. Yeah, my numbers were off too, sorry, it's 0.003 or .3%... and I dropped it in the middle of the two, heh....

    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: Use your own optimizer to tune your queries

    Gullimeel (5/18/2012)


    However, the people who queries dm_exec_query_stats to find the costly queries misses this sort cost.

    No they don't (well, not unless they only look at logical IO). The sort...

    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: Use your own optimizer to tune your queries

    Gullimeel (5/18/2012)


    Filtered statistics is good when you have very less number of distinct value.If there are 10000 distinct values, Will you create 10000 filtered index statistics? Even if you do...

    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: MCM Free Videos - Demo Scripts from Paul/Kim/Brent/Ben

    Personally I find that i learn more and better if I write the code myself and check against his if something breaks.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: MCM Free Videos - Demo Scripts from Paul/Kim/Brent/Ben

    There's no single package with them all and there are no hard and fast plans to release them, they'll probably appear over time.

    (Paul is sitting 3m behind me)

    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: will deleting and restoring database will it improve perfomance?

    No, not at all, that's more likely to degrade performance as it flushes the plan and data cache and will require them to be repopulated entirely. That restore will result...

    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 upgrade will require you to have the ITP certification, not just the TS.

    If you want the SQL 2008 certs, if you with SQL 2008 and see value, write 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: Database Mirroring licence query

    Yes, it's not a failover server. It's a standalone instance that happens to be the witness for a mirroring config.

    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 Mirroring licence query

    Install SQL Express (free) and use that for the witness.

    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: TempDb crashed my server...

    michael vessey (5/18/2012)


    please feel free to post a link to that article,

    It's the kb article you just referenced.

    From that kb:

    IMPORTANT: You must run DBCC SHRINKFILE command while no other...

    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: Partioning & SWITCH questions

    dan-572483 (5/17/2012)


    I'm studying for the 432 exam & have a few questions about SPLIT, MERGE & SWITCH.

    When you want to archive old data to archive tables, how is this a...

    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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