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  • RE: Massive IOs!

    Ninja's_RGR'us (10/26/2011)


    GilaMonster (10/26/2011)


    Ninja's_RGR'us (10/26/2011)


    Worse comes to worst I can come in for a quick consult to try and figure it out for you.

    Or I can do a remote perf review,...

    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: SQL Server will not start in single-user mode

    Starting from the command line or editing the startup parameters in service control manager?

    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?

    jcrawf02 (10/26/2011)


    what do you guys use for calendar apps? (non-iPhoney people) <--hey, that's funny, didn't even mean that...

    missed a couple user group meetings I meant to get to (online), would...

    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 will not start in single-user mode

    I just noticed, with what you said, what's wrong.

    -d is followed by the location of the master data file

    -l by the location of the master log

    -e by the location of...

    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 will not start in single-user mode

    ggareth (10/27/2011)


    Registry startup parameters:

    -m F:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf

    -e F:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG

    ...

    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: DBCC checkdb fials on several databases, but not all

    Share permissions are irrelevant, they're only used by something accessing the server from the network.

    Please browse to the folder and check the NTFS permissions on the folder and files.

    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: Stored Procs vs Ad Hoc

    Gianluca Sartori (10/27/2011)


    Vishal.Gajjar (10/27/2011)


    Adhoc queries need to be exactly same for reuse. i.e. case-sensitivity, white spaces, etc...

    True indeed, except for whitespaces.

    Actually he's completely right. The plan cache key for ad-hoc...

    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: Stored Procs vs Ad Hoc

    Gianluca Sartori (10/27/2011)


    In SQL Server 2000 we did not have "plan cache", there was just "procedure cache" and it was a totally different story.

    2000 did cache ad-hoc queries, it was...

    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: Dropped index speeding up query

    Parameter sniffing? Can you post the query and the plans?

    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: DBCC checkdb fials on several databases, but not all

    spidey73 (10/27/2011)


    That's not what I asked about. Does the SQL Server service account have full control (in Windows) to the files and folders involved? (all of them)

    The Service account has...

    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: Ciclic Redundancy Check error when read xxxxxx_9.ndf file

    jorge_gomes98 (10/27/2011)


    "

    What do you mean 'mistake'?

    "

    Error! CRC Error!

    That's not very helpful. What is the EXACT error message you get when taking a database backup?

    I am now copying tables to another...

    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: database crashed

    Elliott Whitlow (10/26/2011)


    You do have backups?

    I suspect this is a interview/theoretical question (at least I hope it is)

    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: Queries require Stats with Fullscan

    What you're seeing is not that uncommon, especially if you have tables with data skew, where some values are present more than others.

    If you need fullscan, you need fullscan. If...

    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: database crashed

    Define 'crashed'

    What's the situation? What's happened? What are the errors?

    If you want very first thing I'd do - notify business that there is a problem, notify management that there's a...

    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: Vendor suggesting their issue is a limitation of sql server

    jared-709193 (10/26/2011)


    "Log truncation frees space in the logical log by deleting inactive virtual log files form the start of the logical log."

    Not quite correct.

    Log truncation frees space in 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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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