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  • RE: Sql Server FileGroup Backup & Restore

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1268114-357-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Sql Server Schema backup

    Backups in SQL Server are at a database, filegroup or file level, not schema. A schema is a logical grouping of objects, doesn't necessarily match to a phyical grouping in...

    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: Filegroup Backup & restore

    Yes, but...

    While you could restore Fg2 separately (providing the DB's in full recovery and you're running Enterprise Edition), you'd have to then restore log backups to bring the filegroup up...

    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: about restore database

    Edit: nm

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: about restore database

    Henrico Bekker (3/16/2012)


    RESTORE HEADERONLY

    FROM DISK = N'C:\AdventureWorks2008R2-FullBackup.bak'

    WITH NOUNLOAD;

    GO

    Why use NoUnload? It's an option only valid if the backup is on tape. For backups on disk that option is...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: about restore database

    praspras42 (3/16/2012)


    Can anyone explain me the other things that r specified in the messege.I mean wat is the requirement of other specification.

    Can you explain a bit more what you want...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL 2008 sp2 64-bit DBCC CheckDB PFS Error

    I asked Paul about that, he said as far as he knows it is an outstanding bug. It is benign though, only problem is that it's causing CheckDB to fail.

    Can...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Composite non-clustered index.

    Yes, they will.

    That said, indexing every column of the table is a poor strategy. It's unlikely to produce indexes that are useful to the queries and very likely to create...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Adding log file to TempDB

    shovankar (3/16/2012)


    Hi Suresh,

    I tried the following : select name, log_reuse_wait_desc from sys.databases where database_id = DB_ID('tempdb')

    All that means is that there is currently nothing keeping the log active which...

    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: Trace flag 610 & sqlserver 2008 sp3

    Also asked here: http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=172135

    Frankly, my advice remains the same. Check Connect and see if there are any matching bugs (I know there's a least one rollback-related bug but without knowing...

    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: Index Fragmentation and SANs

    SANs aren't going to change index fragmentation(file system fragmentation, yes)

    Index fragmentation is when an index's next logical page is not the next physical page within the file. How the files...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen Verbeeck (3/15/2012)


    It can be no coincidence that this topic is full of elite DBA's!

    Damn, they're everywhere. How are honest developers supposed to get anything done I ask you.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (3/15/2012)


    Writing the first chapter for this new book, I named Codd. For some reason I thought his name was John Codd. I had a reviewer go absolutely BALLISTIC...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Statistics on a sequential DATE table

    4 or 14 logical reads are comparable, and they're too close in time to make any broad conclusions on which is better. At that speed, the measuring inaccuracies are significant.

    Personally...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Server has encountered XXXX occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file

    Optimise queries - find the heavy IO queries and tune them, or get someone in to tune them for you. See Grant's Query Performance Tuning Distilled book for more details

    Upgrade...

    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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