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  • RE: database upgrade

    Either works. Backup-restore is far less work and should be quicker.

    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: Unary Plus -- Does BOL Lie about promoting tinyInt to smallInt?

    Good to hear.

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    28 C, gorgeous summer day, and a late afternoon storm to cool things down for the evening.

    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: Cache Stored Procedure

    That's most likely data caching (data pages cached in the buffer pool), not plan caching as the plan would have been reused for all unless you did something to clear...

    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: How to find the last user who accessed the table?

    Unless you have custom auditing or something like SQLAudit, there is no way to retrieve that information. SQL just doesn't keep it by default.

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQL Kiwi (2/16/2012)


    Are the posted articles[/url] getting worse?

    Dunno about worse, but definitely shorter

    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: Backup/Restore Sql 2005 to 2000

    It'll let you restore a SQL 2005 backup to it, yes (providing the database is under 4GB in size), however once the database is on that instance you will not...

    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: back up into many disks

    Please post new questions in a new thread, that has nothing to do with backup files

    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: back up into many disks

    If you're referring to the avatar, that's a picture from one of the StarWars movies.

    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: When we should use in a query or a procesure "option(recompile)"

    Grant Fritchey (2/16/2012)


    The real shocker is that you don't occasionally get the 30 minute execution anyway.

    Variables, not parameters, so no parameter sniffing and the optimiser probably mis-guessing the row counts....

    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: "Managing" the size of a database log file

    Jody.WP (2/16/2012)


    By archiving your non operational(referenced data older than 3 months) you should reduce your db size which should reduce your log file.

    That would only be true if the monthly...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: "Managing" the size of a database log file

    Yes, you should get more space. That or look at why the month end imports are using that much log space and see if there's anything that can be done...

    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: memory problems

    High memory usage (which is what Idera is picking up) does not automatically mean memory pressure. It just means that a lot of memory is in use. That's generally 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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  • RE: SQL Server 2000

    Ok, take a step back...

    What report contains 5 million records? No one is ever going to read 5 million rows, so what's the purpose of the report?

    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: memory problems

    If SQL is using too much memory, reduce the max server memory setting a little.

    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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