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  • RE: Rebuilding index seems not to do anything????

    sqlzealot-81 (6/6/2011)


    To specify...Quotes from "Paul"

    May I suggest you cut that quote down to just the portion needed and reference it.

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  • RE: Back To Basics: Whats an update

    An in-place update.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Rebuilding index seems not to do anything????

    Jason L (6/6/2011)


    rebuilding the a clustered index will also rebuild any non-clustered indexes on that table.

    It does not.

    Rebuilding the clustered index rebuilds just the clustered index. To rebuild all indexes...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Back To Basics: Whats an update

    muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy (6/6/2011)


    sqlzealot-81 (6/6/2011)


    Hi, Thought of going back to basics, Whats an update. Is it an operation of delete and insert?

    Yep, True the update will delete the value first and...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Percentage Functionality in t-SQL

    Gangadhara MS (6/5/2011)


    DECLARE @table TABLE (number nvarchar(max))

    Why on earth are you using an NVarchar(max)? Expecting numbers with 2 billion unicode digits somehow?

    But its not returning with proper result.

    With that...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Use of partition Functions

    http://www.google.com/search?q=SQL+Server+partition+functions

    There's also a lot of material in Books Online. If you're studying, that should be the first place you look for anything you're not familiar with.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Percentage Functionality in t-SQL

    drew.allen (6/3/2011)


    This is something that is best left to the presentation layer.

    Completely agree. This is something that should be done in the client app, not in the database.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Actual SQL Server Memory Usgage

    Means it wants 6GB and it has 6GB.

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

    Lynn Pettis (6/4/2011)


    Okay denizens of The Thread, I got a call yesterday evening from my oldest daughter that actually left me speechless.

    I am going to be grandfather![/i]

    Looks like I'll need...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Working with SQL Server Express without SSMS

    Everything can be done without SSMS.

    SQLExpress (and all other editions) install a command line tool, SQLCMD. Just about anything that can be done with SSMS can be done with SQLCMD,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Actual SQL Server Memory Usgage

    chinn (6/4/2011)


    But my question is .

    If somebody comes to me and asks how much memory SQL Server is actually using out of the allocated how would i answer that...

    JeremyE (6/3/2011)


    The...

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

    Jim Murphy (6/4/2011)


    Simple stuff like hacking a database in because the Jr. DBA detached a Suspect database which has corruption

    Restore from backup. Depending on your downtime SLA and how...

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

    Jim Murphy (6/4/2011)


    All (but mostly Gail),

    Why is it hard to find sessions about corruption and repair?

    A) sessions not attended well because no one really cares (percieved as largely irrelevant).

    B) community...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: NO_TRUNCATE

    Please note: 4 year old thread.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: is it any effect for taking log backup from log shipping database

    Is that hourly log backup part of the log shipping setup, or a separate log backup job that you're running?

    Gail Shaw
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