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  • RE: SA Passwords

    As long as you have a single sysadmin login (windows authentication one is probably good) you can change the passwords. If you don't, then restart SQL in single user mode...

    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: Wierd process...

    tina_tysinger (1/26/2011)


    What is this demon???? :crazy:

    It's the query that activity monitor runs to get the current server activity.

    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?

    LutzM (1/26/2011)


    I also noticed a change in Joe Celkos replies. Here's a reply I have no problem with pointing others to if they're interested in knowing the order a 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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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Since you seem intent on pulling the whole story out bit by bit, line by line...

    I'm just not seeing a future here at the moment. The IT industry is 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: Introduction to Indexes

    JacekO (1/26/2011)


    Wow,

    Now instead of giving me a fish you are trying to send me out to sea with a net... 😉

    And instructions. 😀

    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?

    CirquedeSQLeil (1/26/2011)


    Gail, you trying to get on at RedGate too?

    No, but...

    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: Introduction to Indexes

    It's been like that since at least the storage engine rewrite before last. That's SQL 7. Maybe before, I have no familiarity with SQL 6.5

    As for the slot array on...

    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 (1/26/2011)


    Where the hell did January go? I think it might have been buried in snow and I missed it.

    Wasn't the snow. I missed most of it too, 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: What is Cost in Execution Plan?

    The cost is an estimate. There are many things that can make it wrong, incorrect row count estimates being the most common

    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: Introduction to Indexes

    JacekO (1/26/2011)


    I think there are two issues of the logical vs physical order. One is about order of the data pages and the other is about the order of the...

    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: Question on Row Count

    Your query is wrong. Add the predicate index_id IN (0,1) or you'll get multiples of the row count if there are any nonclustered indexes.

    One row per table, per index, per...

    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: DBCCC SHRINKFILE

    Accepted.

    Just know that your reply was extremely discomforting.

    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 master db and recover user dbs?

    dp75 (1/26/2011)


    - Is there definitely no way of recovering the master database in this situation? If not...

    No way. Restore or rebuild

    - Before rebuilding must the faulty master mdf and ldf...

    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: The off-row data node is not referenced

    Looks like some pages were deallocated without cleaning up the surrounding structures. On SQL 2000 that could happen when running a checkDB with repair, not sure how it could happen...

    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: Differential backup - Source Information

    There's a type of allocation page called the DCM - the differential change map. It maps which extents have changed since the last full backup. Those extents are the only...

    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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