Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 26,596 through 26,610 (of 49,552 total)

  • RE: How to alter the existing unique nonclustered index

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1096116-145-1.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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: How to alter the index in sql server 2005

    DROP INDEX ....

    CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ...

    or

    CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ....

    WITH DROP_EXISTING

    You cannot alter an index to add a column

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: can I tune this

    If you want help in tuning, 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: turn on verbose logging and SQL in SQL Server 2005

    Posting a new question on an old thread often results in no answers, as people looking to help out and answer questions assume that a thread with 15+ replies is...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Query plan confusion

    jasonmorris (4/20/2011)


    Developers have been locked back in their cupboard for the rest of the year.

    😀 :hehe:

    Just make sure you slip some coffee to them every now and again, otherwise 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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: "A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in a performance degradation"

    Please note: year old thread.

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: BACKUP LOG cannot be performed ...

    Between the diff and the failed log someone either ran BACKUP LOG ... TRUNCATE_ONLY or switched the DBs to simple recovery and back to full, thus breaking the log chain.

    You'll...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: emergency help about error 21

    Once those have been fixed, run a checkDB and post any results.

    DBCC CHECKDB (<Database Name>) WITH NO_INFOMSGS, ALL_ERRORMSGS

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Is the -g memory_to_reserve startup parameter relevant on 64-bit systems?

    Craig Farrell (4/19/2011)


    I just watched about half of the first presentation. I think my brain popped my ear open, snuck out, and dropped down to Mexico for a few...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Creating a Reverse Index on MS SQL Server

    First you need to add a computed column to the table, expression being RIGHT(LoanID,2). Then you can index that computed column.

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Is the -g memory_to_reserve startup parameter relevant on 64-bit systems?

    opc.three (4/19/2011)


    I just stumbled into a really big topic.

    Welcome to memory management. Please check your sanity in at the door.

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Careful Blogging

    OCTom (4/19/2011)


    That way prospective employers or clients can't "get you" on anything.

    Do you want to work for a company that's so draconian about what you do in your free time?

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Is the -g memory_to_reserve startup parameter relevant on 64-bit systems?

    If that was greek, may I suggest downloading and watching this: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC10/CD01 and this http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC10/CD02

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Is the -g memory_to_reserve startup parameter relevant on 64-bit systems?

    It's not something you need to control in 64-bit.

    It has nothing to do with the amount of physical memory, it's a non-reserved portion of the virtual address space of 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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Is the -g memory_to_reserve startup parameter relevant on 64-bit systems?

    In 32-bit, the mem-to-leave is a piece of the virtual address space (2GB) left for non-paged memory. SQL reserves it before it allocates the buffer pool, then frees it to...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Viewing 15 posts - 26,596 through 26,610 (of 49,552 total)