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  • RE: How do you learn the advanced stuff?

    Lynn Pettis (10/4/2011)


    GilaMonster (10/4/2011)


    I'm busy building a monster of a server (8 cores, 16GB memory, 6TB drive space) that can support multiple virtual machines, so I can play with mirroring,...

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

    Both nonclustered indexes would have to be rebuilt to accomodate the removal of the cluster.

    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 fails (nightmare scenario)

    At this point I'd recommend querying the tables and seeing what, if anything, you can get back from them. Some will fail, some won't. For tables that fail, some you'll...

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

    Ninja's_RGR'us (10/4/2011)


    ~Dev~ (10/4/2011)


    The rebuild operation can be minimally logged if the database recovery model is set to either bulk-logged or simple.

    Choosing a Recovery Model for Index Operations:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191484.aspx

    Actually makes no difference.

    What...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: dbcc checkdb fails (nightmare scenario)

    Mark S. Rasmussen (10/4/2011)


    Also we have a system table corruption right at the beginning (Msg 8921, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

    Check terminated. A failure was detected while collecting facts....

    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 fails (nightmare scenario)

    Mark S. Rasmussen (10/4/2011)


    As they're not, I'm suspecting the restore actually zeroed out those blocks, one way or the other - hence I'd like to know more about the exact...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: dbcc checkdb fails (nightmare scenario)

    Not repairable in any way. By the looks of the errors, every file in that database is damaged across most of its length. It looks like large portions of the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: dbcc checkdb fails (nightmare scenario)

    serr4no (10/4/2011)


    Thank you:

    http://pastebin.com/3auHfWDq

    I don't know what that link is supposed to be, and I'm not going to an unknown site for unknown content. Post the results here, or if they're...

    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 fails (nightmare scenario)

    Gianluca Sartori (10/4/2011)


    Gail is probably the most knowledgeable member you can find on these forums when it comes to data corruption.

    Not true. Paul Randal posts here from time to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: dbcc checkdb fails (nightmare scenario)

    serr4no (10/4/2011)


    From the error log:

    SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error: incorrect pageid (expected 1:8743947; actual 0:0). It occurred during a read of page (1:8743947) in database ID 6...

    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: Custom Views gone after a restore

    Good idea.

    A restore recreates the database exactly as it was at the time of backup. There can't be objects missing after a restore.

    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 fails (nightmare scenario)

    Please run the following and post the full and complete results. Pieces of the results are not enough.

    DBCC CHECKDB (<Database Name>) WITH NO_INFOMSGS, ALL_ERRORMSGS

    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

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1184360-146-1.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: large-page allocations ?

    First question. Why are you trying to use it?

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2009/06/05/sql-server-and-large-pages-explained.aspx

    Quote from that post:

    So in summary:

    * Large page support is enabled on Enterprise Edition systems when physical RAM is >= 8Gb...

    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: Shrink Database benefit

    derek.colley (10/4/2011)


    Out of interest, does anyone know why AUTO_SHRINK is such a bad idea? I know that even the training material for MCTS / MCITP recommends against using 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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