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  • RE: Who's afraid of Gila Monsters?

    Michael Valentine Jones (4/13/2011)


    Does this topic have a purpose?

    No.

    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: 70-443... a grinder!

    maheshsoft1987 75072 (4/13/2011)


    can u give me overview of the exam? if possible

    Nothing can be said on the exam without violating NDA.

    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: DROPCLEANBUFFERS scope?

    Grant Fritchey (4/13/2011)


    , off to the test environment.

    *Totally irrelevant thought*

    .. to the TestMobile Batman!

    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: Who's afraid of Gila Monsters?

    Dan.Humphries (4/13/2011)


    Now Politicians from IL they scare the crap out of me. Will Blago ever go away?

    Swap yours for mine? http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/The-revolution-is-on-trial-Malema-20110412

    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: DROPCLEANBUFFERS scope?

    Never test on the production server. Ever.

    That's what dev/test environments are for.

    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: Any draw backs to using Flag 836 with SQL Server 2008 r2 Ent?

    Let's turn the question around. Why do you want to use 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: new computer

    As a client machine either will work. If you're processing massive databases on your desktop, then 64-bit may be of use, but for normal applications (including SQL management tools), 32...

    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?

    CirquedeSQLeil (4/13/2011)


    Leave the contract early without notice and prior to completing the stated work.

    What does his contract require? Solo or contracting house?

    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?

    CirquedeSQLeil (4/13/2011)


    How many of you would walk out on a job without completing it (as a contractor/consultant) - if you were getting paid?

    Never (short of illegal practices by the company)

    Even...

    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: DROPCLEANBUFFERS scope?

    The checkpoint is database-specific, the drop clean buffers drops every single clean page from the entire data cache.

    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 find the collation an index was built with

    The collation is on the column. The index can't have a different collation to the column that it's an index on.

    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: Database Response is too slow

    There's no silver bullet when if comes to performance tuning (I wish there was, i have a client in need of one...).

    1) Find badly performing procedures

    2) Fix badly performing...

    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: view defination

    Is he a member of db_datareader? A member of db_owner? a member of sysadmin?

    Granting view definition doesn't remove permissions, it adds permissions

    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: Recover database from suspect Mode

    You can't restore pages then, that was an option when they were corrupt, not now.

    Because of the log restore (and because checkDB is logged), if you restore pages now...

    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: Which index run first Clustered index or Non_Clustered index

    I still don't understand what you're asking.

    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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