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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ALZDBA (3/18/2011)


    Anyone in for SQL2005 mirroring and replication ?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1080627-291-1.aspx

    ( I don't have the combination )

    No, but I suspect it has to do with log growth. Since the mirror's down, the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: sql 2008 and R2 in 1 machine?

    It's pretty much a golden rule with Microsoft products in general, install in chronological order. ie Office 2007 before office 2010 if you need both, SQL 2005 before SQL 2008....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: tempdb settings

    sqlservr.exe -f -T3608

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: read sqlserver trace file

    I strongly recommend that you don't pull exec plans using profiler unless the trace is filtered, short and run as a server-side trace. That's far from a lightweight trace, it...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Point in time restore

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/18/2011)


    The reason you might need logs from before the full is if your full is broken.

    Yeah, but you don't need an extra right before the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Point in time restore

    homebrew01 (3/18/2011)


    In my scenario, you would need a t-log backup sometime after 3 pm, and before the next full backup.

    Assuming all the backups are intact and restorable, why would...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: transaction log back up failed

    Log backups. Starting with the one taken straight after the diff.

    This may help a bit: http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2011/03/08/full-backups-the-log-chain-and-the-copy_only-option/

    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: Point in time restore

    Ninja's_RGR'us (3/18/2011)


    He had me do 2 full daily and then hope we could take a tail tlog backup to do p.i.t. restore.

    Tail log requires that the log file is intact....

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Sudden high number of VLF

    amajor (3/18/2011)


    Worked perfectly. All active statuses in log file have gone, DBCC Loginfo is clean, db file, log files and backups are back to normal.

    Great. Now monitor it for...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to solve Index Usage

    Execution plan?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Point in time restore

    "The SAN can't possibly break" -> ROTFL. The worst database disaster I've seen was due to a faulty SAN controller.

    Test the backupexec full with the log. I have not heard...

    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: Rebuild/Reorg Indexes

    Rebuilding indexes only updates stats associated with those indexes. There are still column stats that may need to be updated.

    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: How to solve Index Usage

    Please post table definitions, index definitions and execution plan, as per 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

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  • RE: SQL Exams

    If you're asking for dumps, do note that use of such is cheating. Dumps are actual questions taken from the exams in violation of the NDA. Using or distributing dumps...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Info needed on LSN values

    LSN is a log sequence number, it's kinda the address/identifier for a log record.

    What are you trying to do/find here?

    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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