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  • RE: Log shipping from SQL2005 to SQL2008 with standby

    Nope. Standby is only an option if both servers are the same version. For logshipping up-version (which is not a supported scenario) only NORECOVERY can be used.

    Why is replication not...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Value of backing up trans log dumps to tape...?

    Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan (5/30/2011)


    you can't ignore the cost of the Tape and it depends on the policy of the organization ,how much data loss they can bear,in best practices...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Error: inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space...

    Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan (5/30/2011)


    If both cores access the same file at a time second core will be on wait,if you have multiple or more than 1 log file then...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Error: inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space...

    Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan (5/30/2011)


    how many drives not partition you have and how many cores of CPU you have in a machine

    What's that got to do with the number 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

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  • RE: Database is suspect

    Restoring from backup is the recommended way to resolve a suspect database. If the backup strategy was correct, the DB can be recovered right up to the point of failure.

    It's...

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

    Please post table definitions, sample data and expected results as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

    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: Loop Thru a Table

    Not clear.

    Please post table definitions, sample data and expected results as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

    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: Value of backing up trans log dumps to tape...?

    Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan (5/30/2011)


    On every Differential backup ,previous log backups will be useless then you can overwrite them

    On every Full Backup , previous Differential and Log backups will be...

    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: Loop Thru a Table

    In SQL you should almost never iterate row-by-row. Nothing you've said so far indicates there's any need to do operations on individual rows.

    What exactly are you trying to do?

    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 index increse the searching speed?

    This series may be worth reading: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68439/

    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: Value of backing up trans log dumps to tape...?

    Barkingdog (5/29/2011)


    That really is troubling and makes me pause considerably to reflect on those trans log dumps.

    (Of course, if the DB itself has been found corrupt I hope the trans...

    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: Database refuses to auto-increment?? SQL Server Management Studio Express

    When you have an identity, it must not be specified as part of the insert statement, as SQL handles the value. Change your insert statement to

    INSERT INTO Course (Name, Abbrev,...

    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: which type of data or objects stored in mdf and logfiles

    Not sure what you're looking for...

    The mdf (and ndfs if present) store all the data that's within the DB. That's all tables, all indexes, etc

    The ldf stored the records of...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Reason that might cause Database became In Recovery in SQL Server 2008

    SQL was restarted and a large transaction had to either roll back or roll forward.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Database refuses to auto-increment?? SQL Server Management Studio Express

    Table definition (the create table statement) and the insert statement please

    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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