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  • RE: DBCC Checks

    Ignore TempDB. Go read Paul's blog post.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: When your certification expires, do you have to take it off your sig?

    Certifications never expire, they just become unavailable to write.

    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: Tricky ...VARCHAR

    Please note: 3 year old thread.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: VLF problem with Index rebuild

    Don't use % growths. Gets you into big trouble if there's unexpected growth as the growth size increases as the file size increases. Chose a fixed value that's sensible, large...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: VLF problem with Index rebuild

    Be specific about the restore error.

    As for the VLFs, it's apparent that the log needs to be 36 GB in size to support the maintenance, so shrink it to 0...

    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: Is there a way to see if a view is last run?

    Nope. SQL doesn't keep track of when anything runs. You'll need a trace, and it won't be a simple one.

    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: Today's Random Word!

    WOTD - Home.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Doubt in compile

    When you alter or drop a stored proc, any cached execution plan is immediately invalidated, you don't have to do anything to cause 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: Index requirement for logical operations

    Start with Books Online and see if there are any white papers from microsoft

    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: Index requirement for logical operations

    Please go and do some reading on how SQL uses the data cache.

    Writes are also done to the cache and are written to disk later, not written to disk...

    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: last_user_update in sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats

    Did you update a column that was part of the index that you're looking 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: Unique Index

    Not directly possible. You'll have to first create a computed column for the year and then index 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: Index requirement for logical operations

    chandan_jha18 (3/7/2011)


    So even if there is a bad design and inefficient index,my data is still in the memory.

    So? The query processor always operates on data in memory. All you avoid...

    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: dbcc checkdb

    vinod.saraswat (3/6/2011)


    Can you plz. give the step by step guide.

    For what? Between Paul's blog and Grant's reply we've given you several options, none very complex.

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

    After a shutdown like that SQL has to run crash recovery on all databases. If they were very busy, that can take some time. If you can run checkpoint before...

    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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