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  • RE: What are the best practices for creating the non-clustered index

    Yes it will lock the table. For a nonclustered index, should be a shared lock, so just blocks writers. Unless you have Enterprise edition and can build the index online.

    Do...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DB Comparison and Synching

    What Redgate products do you have? SQLCompare sounds like what you want.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Procedure Performance Tuning

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1211482-360-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Procedure Performance Tuning

    SqlSpider... (11/24/2011)


    This is not the way to give the answers for the post...

    And that's not the way to reply to someone who's helping you in his spare time

    just tell the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Performance tuning in SQL 2000

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1211786-391-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: looking for 70-451 exam

    Most of the study materials are copyrighted books. Go buy them if you feel the need.

    Much of the free stuff is of questionable quality and some is outright braindumps...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Seemingly basic transaction/blocking question

    That's fine. Turn the tracelfag on (either with TRACEON or a startup option) and leave it. When the deadlock reoccurs, the deadlock graph will be automatically written into the error...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Can't Shrink the Transaction Log

    Welsh Corgi (11/24/2011)


    So how is your day going so far?

    It's 2:21 AM and I'm still working.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Can't Shrink the Transaction Log

    First investigate and resolve whatever is preventing the log reuse in all of these. Once you've done that you can focus on shrinking them.

    Thing is, nothing can ever move an...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Seemingly basic transaction/blocking question

    Lock type U? That means there's an update involved in this (or a select with UPDLOCK hint)

    Can you post the deadlock graph?

    Switch traceflag 1222 on. That will result in a...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Can't Shrink the Transaction Log

    Welsh Corgi (11/24/2011)


    It was mentioned what can't be done using whatever method.

    You can Shrink the log using the following as was provided in the BOL Link:

    Copy

    USE AdventureWorks;

    GO

    -- Truncate...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Can't Shrink the Transaction Log

    Welsh Corgi (11/24/2011)


    GilaMonster (11/24/2011)


    The NoTruncate and TruncateOnly options on a shrink are solely for data files. They are completely ignored when shrinking a log file.

    It was my understanding that the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Filesystem free space

    sysfiles is deprecated, included only for backward compatibility with SQL 2000 and should not be used any longer.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: When is a scan cheaper than a seek?

    Jeff Moden (11/24/2011)


    perhaps some experimentation with blocking needs to be done with utility tables, such as the Tally Table.

    Those kind of tables should be read-only in use (I don't mean...

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

    Ninja's_RGR'us (11/24/2011)


    GS now works for RG so he's borderline on that one ;-).

    I think you mean GF (Grant Fritchey), because last time I checked I didn't work for RedGate....

    Gail Shaw
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