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  • RE: Query Req: student & attendance table

    Did you try? Is there a performance issue?

    SQL is capable of retrieving data from far more than three small tables without difficulty.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Query Timeout

    Query wait is not a query timeout. SQL Server does not time queries out, the connecting application (in this case query analyser) does.

    Query wait is how long an executing...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: manually expand log space

    Anna, it may be better to stick to one thread on a problem at a time, otherwise you're likely to get conflicting advice if people haven't read the whole story....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to use a null parameter in the where clause

    Read through this as well: http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/03/19/catch-all-queries/. sunitabeck's solution does not perform well on larger resultsets.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: transaction log is full after run maitenance plan

    An index rebuild is a single transaction. In full recovery, you will need log space at least 1.2* the index size to rebuild the index. Either increase the size of...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: 'OR' indexing

    alan.berger (3/26/2011)


    Awesome. Please let me know when the blog is posted. I'd appreciate a link sent to alanb.dba@gmail.com

    Feel free to subscribe to my blog. I haven't even finished...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: 'OR' indexing

    alan.berger (3/26/2011)


    I take it by the plural at the end that for n colums connected with the or, there should be at least n indexes.

    Yup.

    Shameless plug - am busy writing...

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

    Jeff Moden (3/26/2011)


    Oddly enough, I've seen a couple of posts on SSC and a fair number more on other forums where people say index maintenance is not important if your...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Restore - too recent to apply to the database?

    djguana (3/25/2011)


    no this is the only bakcup FULL that is performed, the one from the maintenance plan.

    Not asking about full backups. Full backups don't break log shipping.

    Can you check the...

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

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/25/2011)


    A Facebook friend just asked to start an on-line book club with Dan Simmon' Hyperion. Anyone read it? Just started it and not sure about...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Error moving SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 NOLOCK Error

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/08/24/stats-blob-corruptions/

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

    GSquared (3/25/2011)


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    GSquared (3/25/2011)


    I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment...

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

    Brandie Tarvin (3/25/2011)


    At risk of turning this into a technical discussion again. Aren't bulk insert operations minimally logged? Haven't they been since at least SQL 2000?

    In bulk-logged and simple recovery...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (3/25/2011)


    I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.

    RBDM!

    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: Query Tuning Assistance - Max() and Group By

    That's already as optimal as it will get.

    Since the table has 2 columns only, that clustered index scan is returning the minimum amount of information possible to execute this query....

    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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