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  • RE: Frozen Jobs, SPIDS, and Rollback

    Restart SQL. I've seen this a couple times at a client, never dug out the root cause (I suspect there's some non-SQL resource being held somewhere).

    Irritating, I know.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: #Temp table indexes uncertainty

    Koen Verbeeck (12/21/2011)


    The only performance impact that it has is when you have a really long script (say 1000 individual statements) and it fails, without GO it has to roll...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Backup/Restore Questions

    raotor (12/21/2011)


    1. I understand that a "Copy-only" backup is independant of other backups - particularly when you're using a "Full" or "Bulk Logged" recovery model for the DB, but how...

    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: Indexing on a 2005 partitioned table

    Keep both. They have a different leading column, so they are completely different indexes. The primary key can't be seeked for accountID filters or joins, those would have to scan...

    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?

    Koen Verbeeck (12/21/2011)


    Can anyone confirm that the link to the PDF provided in the thread is actually that very bad white paper?

    Not a DBA, but...

    That's the previous version of the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Does a SQL backup write tot he transaction log file?

    A full backup does write to the transaction log, but it's just a couple of small entries. What's far more important is that for the duration of the full backup,...

    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: Upgrade from 2005 to ???

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/20/2011)


    However, licensing changes are big. I would highly consider purchasing a SQL 2008 R2 license, whether you upgrade or not now, and then use that...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Sanity Check/Assistance re-writing nested join

    Don't focus on whether the plan looks the same, SQL can generate very different plans for queries and, unless you're examining the properties of all the operators, two queries that...

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

    SQLRNNR (12/20/2011)


    can we wrap the artichoke in bacon and serve with a side of pork chop and applesauce?

    I'm absolutely certain you're physically capable of doing that, yes.

    Whether you want to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Physical vs logical corruption

    Ok, so in Paul's terms this is physical corruption.

    Logical corruption would be orphaned rows, data violating assumed constraint, duplicate rows in a table that's supposed to be unique (but doesn't...

    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?

    SQLRNNR (12/20/2011)


    Anybody else notice that the Headline article today has the "Editorial" pic? Is it an editorial or an article?:-D:-D

    It's an artitorial (similar to an artichoke, but not as...

    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: Physical vs logical corruption

    ronmoses (12/20/2011)


    GilaMonster (12/20/2011)


    What recovery model and what is your backup strategy and frequency?

    Recovery model is full, the backup strategy is something I'll need to talk to the customer about. ...

    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: Physical vs logical corruption

    p.s. For various severities of corruption and fixes, see http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/65804/

    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: Physical vs logical corruption

    Dunno, what are you defining as 'logical corruption'? It's not a standard term.

    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: Physical vs logical corruption

    ronmoses (12/20/2011)


    GilaMonster (12/20/2011)


    As for how to fix, you posted an incomplete checkDB output, there's at least one, hopefully two more lines to the output. Please post them.

    Sorry, I was hoping...

    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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