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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Wow, lots of stuff happening. Congrats to everyone who deserves 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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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (6/28/2011)


    I'm working in Denali a lot lately and I haven't seen a build that works there. I'll have to bug the developers next week. I miss it already.

    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: How do I Select the oldest record in EACH table for a specific DB

    Do these tables have an 'inserted date' column or identity column? If not, there's no way to get insert/modification dates. SQL does not keep track of such things for rows.

    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: New DBA resuming in a financial org.....

    Grant Fritchey (6/28/2011)


    But I wouldn't sweat performance out of the gate. Backups, compliance, monitoring.

    Yup. lack of backups (recoverable backups) can seriously harm the business and get you fired. Failure...

    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: Best Failover Database System Solution For My Project

    manning20 (6/28/2011)


    Thanks for responding. Our budget is tight, but we want high availability and redundancy. We want minimal downtime if our main production server crashes.

    That's kinda vague.

    There are several...

    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: 70-450 Demanding questions

    Rich Yarger (6/28/2011)


    Well - I hope you got a good laugh from it Gail, because his actions are about as laughable as they are believable.

    I did, especially since there 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: Allocation Errors

    I did mean the only type of error, but there are two types of allocation errors in your checkDB output.

    If you don't fix it, queries that hit the corruption will...

    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: New DBA resuming in a financial org.....

    oluwaseunadenaike (6/28/2011)


    I guess SQL profiler and the DB tuning advisor are my best bets

    Profiler yes, DTA absolutely not. I'm currently making nice money cleaning up the mess that DTA made...

    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 Check

    I need specifics please.

    SELECT @@version

    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 Check

    What version of SQL?

    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: Question on backup of sql database

    That'll work.

    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: PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN FOR DATABASE BEFORE REBUILDING INDEX

    Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan (6/28/2011)


    consider Backup also

    Before rebuilding an index?

    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: SA Password Recovery

    Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan (6/28/2011)


    sp_help_revlogin recovery store procedure is available by microsoft

    visit this link and get the required userid password with the help of this script

    sp_help_revlogin is used to copy...

    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: Best Failover Database System Solution For My Project

    What are your downtime and data-loss SLAs?

    What's the budget for DR?

    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: Question on backup of sql database

    Illegal_Operation (6/27/2011)


    Executing the query "BACKUP LOG [Database] TO DISK = N'C:\\Backup\\Databas..." failed with the following error: "Database 'DATABASE' cannot be opened. It is in the middle of a restore.

    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
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