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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The "Mr I don't have a clue" thread is starting to resemble a pile-on. Maybe better to just ignore him or at most one post from one person when he...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Which user is this?

    Make sure that the login has a mapped user in its default database and that the database it has listed as default exists. That's what login failure state 16 means

    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: CHECKDB returned this...

    ALTER DATABASE ... SET SINGLE USER (and make sure you are that single user) 🙂

    Replication's more robust than most people give it credit for. The distributor knows what's been sent...

    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 Shipping or Tran Dump to Devices

    Couple things...

    Don't use backup devices. Backup to disk, give each backup its own file, preferably stamped with the datetime.

    If you are running log shipping, you cannot have anything else backing...

    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: Dropping indexes with low read to write ratio?

    SkyBox (4/17/2012)


    I attached a file that show the indexes from a table and all the fields in each index. Without spending much time, do you see any obvious indexes...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Dropping indexes with low read to write ratio?

    SQLKnowItAll (4/17/2012)


    And as a note to the OP, (not to you Lynn) not knowing your experience, make sure you really know what an overlapping index is. I have seen people...

    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: Trying to restore a database with STANDBY/READ ONLY

    Please don't start multiple threads for the same problem

    Replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1284930-1550-1.aspx please

    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: Want to create a Log Shipping

    On the log shipping dialog, secondary database settings, the restore transaction log tab, select standby instead of no recovery mode.

    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: CHECKDB returned this...

    Don't stop the log reader unless you want a full log on the publisher to boot. No, there's no problems from taking a subscriber offline, replication is designed to handle...

    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: error with insert statement

    MAS90ID and SLXID are varchar(50) in the source table, nvarchar(10) in the destination. Likely there are values over 10 characters long.

    Widen the column in the destination table or use...

    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: Want to create a Log Shipping

    Wild guess..

    Parameter '@backup_destination_directory' cannot be null or empty. Specify a value for the named parameter and retry the operation.

    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: Can we increase the query Execution Time

    davidandrews13 (4/17/2012)


    there is an execution time-out option in SQL.

    click Tools --> Options... and then choose 'Query Execution' from the resulting popup window.

    you will see an option that says 'Execution time-out'...

    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: had an issue but just wondering if anyone has seen this before

    Did anyone restore or detach/attach the database?

    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: Want to create a Log Shipping

    Start with Books Online. There's fairly good coverage of log shipping in there.

    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: Rollback Help

    Get a backup that was taken before the update. REstore it as a new database. Copy the data over.

    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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