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  • RE: about the site itself

    patrickmcginnis59 (1/13/2012)


    If a poster has not much time but a good attitude, knowledge and skills, right now they get lost in the crowd.

    How will a reputation system change that? Stack...

    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 Instance

    Uninstall, reinstall

    Server names can be changed, instance names cannot.

    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: ShrinkDatabase doesn't shrink the data file

    Could you run this and post the results (attached as an excel spreadsheet will be easiest)

    SELECT ddips.index_id, index_level, alloc_unit_type_desc, avg_fragmentation_in_percent, avg_page_space_used_in_percent, ghost_record_count, avg_record_size_in_bytes, forwarded_record_count, record_count, page_count

    , au.data_pages, au.total_pages, au.used_pages

    FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats(<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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: What is the cause or why do we get allocation error

    Exactly, it's a page corruption, likely caused by some problem with the IO subsystem. Basically you have a dedicated extent (extent belonging to one object) that's marked as owned by...

    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: How to keep a plan in cache

    SQL uses a variety of the LRU algorithm for the plan cache, so less-used plans will be aged out and removed.

    I suppose you could schedule a job that ran the...

    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: DB recovery to a "point in time"

    No. Not automatically.

    You could restore another copy of the DB, roll the logs all the way forward and then use something like SQLDataCompare to see what's different and decide what...

    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: Transaction Log

    nirnaykhatri (1/12/2012)


    That means therez isn't possibility of accessing log files without the need of third party tools.

    There's a couple of undocumented commands that let you read the transaction logs,...

    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: Certificate upgrade path from MCTS 2005 to MCITP 2008

    The upgrade (iirc) is from MCITP 2005 to MCITP 2008. Without the 2005 ITP, you won't be able to just write the upgrade exam and get 2008 ITP. You'd have...

    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: 70-450. how deep do i need to go

    Sumanta Roy (1/13/2012)


    I have some doubts here on this topics.. Can someone please give some lights on this?

    1. Why Microsoft dont take actions on those actual dumps providers when illegal?...

    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: I can t reduce Avg. Page Density

    If you want the page density close to 100, then you'll have to set the fill factor to 100. SQL's not going to fill pages 100% when you've explicitly told...

    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: What is the cause or why do we get allocation error

    Do you have a clean full backup (one without the corruption) and an unbroken chain of log 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: How to keep a plan in cache

    The plan probably gets aged out of cache because it doesn't get used often. There's no way to force it to stay in cache.

    Why is the plan being removed an...

    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: DB recovery to a "point in time"

    In short, restore the following

    8am full backup WITH NORECOVERY

    10am log backup WITH NORECOVERY

    midday log backup WITH NORECOVERY

    2pm log backup WITH STOPAT '12:59:59.997', RECOVERY

    One database restored to how it was just...

    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: I can t reduce Avg. Page Density

    Hang on, why would you want to reduce page density? Page density is the average % of used space on pages, higher is usually good.

    The reason it's around 80...

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    L' Eomot Inversé (1/12/2012)


    edit: I haven't looked at the posting history - just the the thread referenced here and the first thread it references - so maybe I'm reacting on...

    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

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