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  • RE: Terms in plain English .... please

    Ian Scarlett (2/3/2012)


    If someone mentions cardinality in the context of a table, they may be referring to the uniqueness of the values in a data column e.g. an Email...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Terms in plain English .... please

    Cardinality (in SQL) is used with regards to a query operator in a query. It it simply the measure of how many rows that query operator processes.

    So if an index...

    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 management in SQL Server

    shovankar (2/3/2012)


    Thanks a lot for your reply. I am using SQL SERVER 2008 ENTERPRISE edition with 32 GB ram. I was just wondering if any kind of programming can be...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Incremental Back up

    No. SQL's backups are full, differential and log.

    Some people call log backups incremental, but they are not truly incremental backups

    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: Server: Msg 823, Level 24, State 2, Line 1

    Restore from a clean backup and check what is wrong with the IO subsystem for it to be throwing that error (something is wrong)

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

    Revenant (2/2/2012)


    SQLRNNR (2/2/2012)


    GilaMonster (2/2/2012)


    Anyone interested in proof-reading an article on bulk-logged recovery and minimally logged operations? It's titled as an introductory article, but I read the log and might end...

    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: Virtual or Physical

    http://www.google.com/search?q=virtualization+%22SQL+Server%22

    I stopped checking after 3 pages of relevant results.

    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: a tricky question

    That requirement falls under what's called HA/DR - High Availability/Disaster Recovery. Massive topic, entire books have been written on that. Start with Books Online, there are sections for High Availability...

    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?

    Evil Kraig F (2/2/2012)


    GilaMonster (2/2/2012)


    Anyone interested in proof-reading an article on bulk-logged recovery and minimally logged operations? It's titled as an introductory article, but I read the log and might...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Anyone interested in proof-reading an article on bulk-logged recovery and minimally logged operations? It's titled as an introductory article, but I read the log and might end up with some...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: How to find seed and increment for an identity column of a user type table

    I suspect you'd have to declare a table of that type to check the identity properties. The type doesn't have an identity itself, it's just the definition for a table

    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 transactions started after a full backup stored in a full backup?

    Depends on when the transactions complete. If they commit before the data-copying portion of the backup completes, yes. Otherwise no.

    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: Join performance

    Replication, maybe, but it can give problems if you're updating/deleting the data. Also a serious security/data privacy concern. If you're under any of the SOX, HIPAA or similar, that would...

    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: aditing

    The code you posted has syntax errors in it.

    Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure xxxx, Line 54

    Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'ELSE'.

    Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure xxxx,...

    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: OPTION (KEEPFIXED PLAN)

    That's the count of plans found in cache. Duplicate plans are usually caused by not parameterising queries, not qualifying object names or changing set options. Since you say it's part...

    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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