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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (3/23/2011)Craig, 'Inventing a Lane' did not originate in Boston, it was first registered as a purely South African invention. Our "communal" taxis (can't call them bl@ck...

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  • RE: Developer making me look ignorant

    Elliott Berkihiser (3/23/2011)


    The developer asked me whether the SQL engine on the remote server would do some of the work and only send filtered results back to the originating server,...

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  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    In that case shrinking to 10% free is not going to do anything.

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  • RE: 'IS NOT NULL' in LEFT OUTER JOIN

    One thing that may help - drop the RTRIM off of the group by columns. SQL ignores trailing spaces anyway, and the function may be preventing SQL from leveraging...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    No.

    Is there 10% free space?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Runaway transaction log... No open transactions, no long running transactions????

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

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (3/23/2011)


    Off-topic Self Promotion!

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (3/23/2011)


    Hm, an anthology of sci-fi and fantasy hookers. Anyone else have that list of books to read that just gets longer... and longer... and longer...? 😀

    Last...

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  • RE: Deadlock on a single resource ?

    Craig Farrell (3/23/2011)


    Jimble,

    Is this everything? The final component of the graph looks like it's a 3 way deadlocking but only spids 67 and 84 have descriptions above, and 60...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Deadlock on a single resource ?

    Can you post the table definitions and index definitions?

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  • RE: Log file not shrinking

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/23/2011)


    Also, you should not be regularly truncating and shrinking. If you are in full mode, set up transaction log backups.

    And on that point... Managing Transaction...

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  • RE: Query Plans. Any way to store, retrieve, and execute?

    Grant Fritchey (3/23/2011)


    No, you can't really avoid the compile process. If you try plan forcing you're at least guaranteed which plan you get.

    However that can increase CPU usage as the...

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  • RE: Query Plans. Any way to store, retrieve, and execute?

    KermitTheRock (3/23/2011)


    My situtation is I have literally 100k queries that need to execute every night. Currently the SQL is in a field in table. A CLR iterates the table executing...

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  • RE: Log file not shrinking

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Transaction+Log/72488/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Differential Restore Problem

    It should, but the error indicates that something reset the differential base. I have heard of this before with backupexec backups, can't recall details.

    Gail Shaw
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