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  • RE: SQL Server 2008r2 : How many Log files?

    devereauxj (9/19/2011)


    Let me throw this out there. I have been running multiple logs since SQL 2000 (2003 / 1st prod instance). I have never had any errors, warnings...

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  • RE: Dead lock issue

    Unless you had some form of trace or auditing running at the time, no.

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008r2 : How many Log files?

    p.s. At the sizes you're talking, there's one valid reason for multiple log files. A single log file cannot be larger than 2TB. So if you're touching that, you'll need...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Server 2008r2 : How many Log files?

    devereauxj (9/19/2011)


    I know, but there are 10's or hundreds of processes, SQL only writes 1 at a time to a log file. Also, I have 4 log files on...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Server 2008r2 : How many Log files?

    One log file. Always and only.

    SQL does not ever parallel across log file. It writes to the log file in a serial manner. If there's more than one log file...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: AWE Enabled but no gains in Memory Usage by SQL Server- Requesting Help

    32 bit or 64 bit (OS and SQL)?

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  • RE: Capturing Stored Procedures statements with DMVs

    Lowell (9/19/2011)


    Based on what Jason pointed to, where you can harvest info from the execution plans, this seemed to work for me;

    i ran a proc "sp_find that takes one parameter...it's...

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  • RE: Capturing Stored Procedures statements with DMVs

    DBCC INPUTBUFFER

    That's iirc.

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  • RE: Index Maintenance.DBCC REINDEX fails

    dave_shipway (9/19/2011)


    I queried the sys.indexes system table and it appears that these indexes are rebuild every night by a some kind of scheduled job (which I haven't quite tracked down...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: sql profiler monitor page splits per sec

    Just bear in mind that's not actually page splits (in the sense of SQL splitting a full page). Any page allocations into the index get counted against that.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Dead lock issue

    That's JDBC stuff, has to do with it's transaction handling.

    Nothing more that can really be said with the little you posted.

    I'd start with the app vendor (or developers if...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Dead lock issue

    If you're not seeing deadlocks in the error log with that traceflag on then you aren't getting any deadlocks. That's a good thing.

    As for the error, that's not a SQL...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Index Maintenance.DBCC REINDEX fails

    Have you looked at the job history?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The log doesn't have pages (it has VLFs, log blocks and log records). Checkpoint will cause the log buffer to be flushed to disk (the current set of un-hardened log...

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

    WayneS (9/19/2011)


    GilaMonster (9/19/2011)


    There's no good or practical reason to do what I showed, it's near-impossible to understand and it will break CheckDB. (Can't create an alternate stream of an alternate...

    Gail Shaw
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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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