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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (4/11/2011)


    GilaMonster (4/11/2011)


    Ok, had enough complaints about the lizard. Let's see if this is better.

    What/who is it?

    And what was wrong with the lizard?

    Can't recall, I deleted the PMs. Complaining that...

    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?

    Stefan Krzywicki (4/11/2011)


    EDIT: Never Mind, Can't do FAST_FORWARD and STATIC on the same Cursor.

    However LOCAL STATIC FORWARD_ONLY READ_ONLY works.

    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: Restore new instance Differential Backup on top of attached dirty instance?

    Obviously I wasn't clear enough.

    A restore of a diff/log MUST immediately follow the restore of the full backup. (Restore, not attach) and that restore MUST leave the database in recovering...

    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?

    Executions of the query after the first are faster because the pages are in memory and the plan is in cache. I generally just run queries more than once and...

    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?

    Stefan Krzywicki (4/11/2011)


    GilaMonster (4/11/2011)


    Ok, had enough complaints about the lizard. Let's see if this is better.

    People complained about the lizard?

    Yes, I have a bunch of PMs on the topic. Not...

    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?

    Stefan Krzywicki (4/11/2011)


    I'm likely using the wrong word. the metrics that are gathered by SQL Server to improve performance on subsequent runnings of a query. I knew the word 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: Restore new instance Differential Backup on top of attached dirty instance?

    You cannot restore anything (differential or transaction log) to a DB that's online. To restore a diff backup the DB has to be either Restoring or Standby, left in that...

    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?

    Ok, had enough complaints about the lizard. Let's see if this is better.

    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?

    Stefan Krzywicki (4/11/2011)


    I just don't want to wipe all statistics on the machine because other queries use them to improve performance.

    Errr, what statistics are you talking about and why 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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (4/11/2011)


    Believe me, I don't want to be using a cursor, but it is part of production code and every time I mention changing it to set based code...

    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 2008 Recovery Models

    Politely suggest to your vendor that they switch to bulk-logged recovery. It'll minimally log then index rebuilds, but won't break the log chain.

    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 2008 Recovery Models

    The same as would happen if you change it anywhere. The log chain is broken and you will need to take another full backup before you can take further transaction...

    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: Changing recovery model

    Please post new questions in a new thread. Thank you.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: The Page Checksum

    Read the question as 'when is it first computed', since there's mention of changing the page verify. Basically, when is the checksum added to a page. It won't be checked...

    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: Plan caching in SQL 2008 ~ Recompilations due to SET option changes

    Simon_L (4/11/2011)


    but yes I did run a trace with those events selected and it causes a cachemiss so guessing the whitepaper is slighlty out 🙂

    What it probably is, is a...

    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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