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  • RE: Error 9002: The Transaction Log for MSDB database is full.

    What is the current situation? Not the initial errors, those are pretty irrelevant since you rebuilt the system databases. What is the exact current situation?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: memory question

    thedom4302 (11/9/2011)


    what would be a good percentage to have of memory to database size ?

    No hard and fast number there. Depends on the usage patterns, the amount of data that's...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: memory question

    thedom4302 (11/9/2011)


    performance would not be 200% better either its not like the raw table data sits in memory..

    Err, that's exactly what does happen, whether you have more memory than data...

    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 question

    I'd call that a utopia state, but one that I've almost never seen.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Index Fragmentation

    derekr 43208 (11/8/2011)


    When talking about an Index Key, is that the data in the columns it covers?

    No, just the column defined as the index key, the column(s) that the index...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Active to Active Load balancing Cluster set up & hardwares

    One thing first.

    SQL Server clustering is not load balancing. It's purely high availability. With SQL clustering a database server is active on one node and inactive on the other always....

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

    How can BCNF be sensibly discussed if the earlier normal forms aren't known?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: execute stored procedure with order by

    The Dixie Flatline (11/8/2011)


    daveriya (11/8/2011)


    i want to order my result by 1,5 ..not with column name

    Hasn't ordering by column number been deprecated?

    I thought so too, but I can't find it...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: INSERT into sys.objects on 2008

    Don't hack the system tables, it's likely what caused this in the first place and if you don't know what you're doing you could make things far worse. sys.objects isn't...

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

    SQLRNNR (11/8/2011)


    GilaMonster (11/8/2011)


    I give it about a month and a half to two months before I pass Steve for top place overall.

    Taking a break? Just curious why waiting so...

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

    I give it about a month and a half to two months before I pass Steve for top place overall.

    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: DEADLOCK problem in our production DB

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (11/8/2011)


    Hard to tell without knowing the application in detail but, if I remember it right "serializable isolation level" is the most restrictive of the isolation levels meaning that as...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: DEADLOCK problem in our production DB

    Switch traceflag 1222 on. That will result in a deadlock graph been written to the error log every time a deadlock occurs. Post the result of that graph here.

    DBCC TRACEON(1222,-1)

    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: Really large LDF file

    mbender (11/8/2011)


    Page Verify Option:TORN_PAGE_DETECTION

    Though you do want to fix that at some point.

    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 can I tell if my database has Implicit Transactions On?

    Implicit transactions isn't a database-level setting. It's a client setting, so client apps would enable it (or not) when they connect.

    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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