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  • RE: Can we remove temp tables to improve performance

    General forum 'rules' - post it publicly and we'll comment publicly so that others who read will also benefit.

    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: Page verify - Backup with checksum

    You can'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: Help with this Where Clause! (challenge)

    GilaMonster (11/18/2011)


    Dynamic SQL. See my blog post. It can be done in a single statement but its performance will be comparable to molasses in a Canadian winter.

    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: Help with this Where Clause! (challenge)

    Dynamic SQL. See my blog post. It can be done in a single statement but its performance will be comparable to molasses in a Canadian winter.

    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?

    Which is why they changed it from 3 weeks of training and exams to just two exams. Training's now completely up to you to figure out.

    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 DBA/Developer salary survey

    I assume there's an implied 'USA only' here...

    What's this for? Curiosity?

    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?

    WayneS (11/18/2011)


    GilaMonster (11/18/2011)


    Chad Crawford (11/18/2011)


    The MCM would be cool, but the $19K price tag is a bit tough to come up with.

    What $19 000 price tag? The knowledge exam...

    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?

    Chad Crawford (11/18/2011)


    The MCM would be cool, but the $19K price tag is a bit tough to come up with.

    What $19 000 price tag? The knowledge exam is $500,...

    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 owner of the table?

    If the person creating the object has dbo rights (so any database owner or sysadmin), ownership will be dbo (principal_id = NULL in sys.objects)

    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: Missing Index suggested in execution plan even though index with same exact columns already exists!

    http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Missing-index-DMVs-bug-that-could-cost-your-sanity.aspx

    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: More than one mirror in SQL 2008 R2?

    christopher.metzger (11/18/2011)


    AH! So '12 will, supposedly, let me do it.

    Yup. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff877884%28v=SQL.110%29.aspx

    Each set of availability database is hosted by an availability replica. Two types of availability replicas...

    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: Index overhead between Clustered index Include Index

    It may well do. Depends how you're inserting. One batch, probably not. Multiple batches, likely yes because of the increased page splits. Test and see.

    Also remember that the clustering key...

    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: More than one mirror in SQL 2008 R2?

    christopher.metzger (11/18/2011)


    Whether it should be log shipping from VA to CA or if I can do another mirror so the SQL Server on the other end is more easily available....

    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: More than one mirror in SQL 2008 R2?

    Dev (11/18/2011)


    Expensive:

    SAN requirement

    Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) licences

    Whereas mirroring requires 2 sets of storage (clustering is one), so unless using direct attached storage for the mirrors as opposed...

    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: Technologies that surround SQL Server...

    And note that you cannot possibly learn more than the basics about everything around SQL. There's just so much that it's impossible to become an expert on all of it...

    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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