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  • RE: taking more wait time

    What wait type?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: T-Log is filledup

    Please read through this - Managing Transaction Logs[/url] and this: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Transaction+Log/72488/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Max Memory - SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64-bit)

    WRACK (2/19/2012)


    GilaMonster (2/19/2012)


    Just a point, if SQL is not on a dedicated server, then setting a sensible max server memory is almost essential. It's recommended even on a dedicated server,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Max Memory - SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64-bit)

    Just a point, if SQL is not on a dedicated server, then setting a sensible max server memory is almost essential. It's recommended even on a dedicated server, especially of...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The blog-related threads seem to be mostly gone. I noticed a couple during the week (see page or so earlier in the thread), but none this weekend. I think the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Wondering why ERROR on a specific case of smallmoney

    It has to do with type precedence and what happens when you add different data types together.

    In the first, you're adding a smallmoney and an int and getting a result...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How are big databases different for administration?

    sumitagarwal781 (2/19/2012)


    Rowles (2/18/2012)


    2) There are multiple ndfs and one mdf as opposed to one mdf file.

    Nice article on performance with multiple filegroup.

    http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/per/optimize_filegroup_performance_p1.aspx

    Pity it's wrong in a few key places.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Does Sql Server clustering increasing data access performance?

    Clustering is solely a high-availability solution, it has no impact on performance at all.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How are big databases different for administration?

    It's not about maint plan vs T-SQL. It's about targeted, sensible maintenance not everything.

    2 is not necessarily true, and multiple filegroups doesn't really make maintenance harder

    3 - backups on VLDBs...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Corruption - Page Restore - Replication

    Check event logs and driver versions on the server too. Cause may not be the SAN, could be anything in the IO stack from filter drivers right down to the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Sql Server Load Balancer

    GilaMonster (2/18/2012)


    You can't load balance two or more SQL Servers without huge amounts of work to keep the two databases in sync eg though (peer-to-peer replication).

    Typically you'd load balance...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Corruption - Page Restore - Replication

    I checked with an expert and he's pretty sure that the page restores won't affect the replication, the page restore will just be bringing the page up to current state...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: schema.object when it isn't a database.table (understanding nomenclature and variation)

    Schema is never a database. Schema is, well, a schema a logical grouping of objects within a database. The object can be anything, table, view, procedure, function, etc, they're all...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: ANSI_NULLS set to on, what will work?

    Why don't you try them and see? Easy to test.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Different lock modes

    Update locks are compatible with shared locks, exclusive are not. An update first takes update locks on all of the rows it need to update and then, once it has...

    Gail Shaw
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