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  • RE: SQL server General administration: IO times and Page Life expectancy

    My uneducated guess (if someone asks for TempDB recommendations for a server I've never seen) is number of data files = 1/4-1/2 the number of cores in the system, do...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL server General administration: IO times and Page Life expectancy

    http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/A-SQL-Server-DBA-myth-a-day-%281230%29-tempdb-should-always-have-one-data-file-per-processor-core.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: Index REORGANIZE question

    If you're intent on shrinking, don't waste your time defragmenting the indexes beforehand, as the shrink will result in them being far more fragmented than ever.

    Shrink is something that should...

    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?

    GSquared (6/7/2011)


    GilaMonster (6/7/2011)


    Now I can look forward to working on fun, interesting, complex stuff (like automating an entire SQL environment from scratch, designing nasty-complex systems for forecasting) rather than producing...

    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 General administration: IO times and Page Life expectancy

    More emphasising that there's no single hard value where it's good above and bad below. I see the 'page life expectancy must be above 300' tossed around far too much...

    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 General administration: IO times and Page Life expectancy

    Elliott Whitlow (6/7/2011)


    A consistently low Page Life Expectency is typical of memory pressure. I beleive the metric is consistently less than 300 seconds. Keep in mind some operations...

    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?

    Now I can look forward to working on fun, interesting, complex stuff (like automating an entire SQL environment from scratch, designing nasty-complex systems for forecasting) rather than producing lists 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (6/7/2011)


    GilaMonster (6/7/2011)


    The client-from-hell is no more.

    You didn't do something drastic did you? 😀

    Nah. My boss (MD of the consulting company) and laid out our issues and explained that we...

    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: (Nolock) created blocking?

    Read committed snapshot is set at a database level, but you can enable snapshot isolation and set that for a connection with the usual SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL statement.

    If you...

    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?

    The client-from-hell is no more.

    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: Performace issue in SQL server 2008

    Please post execution plans, query, table definition, index definitions. See http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    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: Processes in SQL Server 2005

    Suspended = waiting for a resource

    Sleeping = not currently running a query

    Runnable = can be scheduled onto a processor.

    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: Need a true expert for a day of consulting

    Grant Fritchey (6/7/2011)


    Does location matter? Meaning, could people work remotely? I know several people (including me) who have lower rates for remote work.

    If you read the original thread over at...

    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: Need a true expert for a day of consulting

    I recommend the same person I recommended when you posted to SQLTeam. http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=161474

    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: default order of rows not honored

    Different execution plans so probably using indexes differently, so different ordering.

    Seriously, without an order by there is nothing you can say about the order of the rows. It's however they...

    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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