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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Craig Farrell (1/25/2011)


    I've got it pretty good at the moment...

    Wish I could say the same, as I'm sure my near-constant rants (whining) has implied. Starting to think about alternatives, and...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DBCCC SHRINKFILE

    Little Nick (1/25/2011)


    Can you give me a steps to address the size as mentioned?

    Did you read the article I referenced? (I'm assuming not because it answers exactly that question)

    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: Performance issue

    SAnjy N (1/25/2011)


    And I am not comfortable with Execution Plans. How to read them!

    Look at the post right above this one. Look at the books that the author of 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Backup Job in windows login

    I would suggest you speak to the IT team about that policy. It's an appallingly bad security practice for an individual's domain login to be used for scheduled tasks (password...

    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?

    ALZDBA (1/25/2011)


    Sheer luxury :Wow:

    at least if you compare it to most of us :blink:

    Yup. Wish I was in that position.

    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: Automated Trigger To Require a WHERE Clause

    tim.royal (1/25/2011)


    Just curious, but if every record in the table is satisfied by the WHERE clause, will this still fail the update? (example: if I select rows from {table} where...

    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 null check in where clause

    koustav_1982 (1/25/2011)


    which one is better among these 2 in terms of performance and best practice:

    1.where col1=@colValue or col1 is null

    2.where col1 is null or col1=@colValue

    Those two where clauses (as...

    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: Backup Job in windows login

    durai nagarajan (1/25/2011)


    you mean to say it is not possible.

    Err, no that's not what I said at all.

    SQL agent runs under a specific windows service account (check the SQL Server...

    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: tempdb best practices on 24-core machine

    Tim L-309246 (1/25/2011)


    In http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server/70505/

    it says, "Best practices call for tempdb to have one datafile per processor (core) and all to be of the same initial size and growth."

    Not necessarily.

    http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/A-SQL-Server-DBA-myth-a-day-(1230)-tempdb-should-always-have-one-data-file-per-processor-core.aspx

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen (da-zero) (1/25/2011)


    I was more referrering to the Never never ever give up reply.

    (I should've been more specific)

    But now I look at it, it can also be that person's signature....

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Backup Job in windows login

    Assuming the backup is run by SQL Agent, it's run under the security context of the SQL Agent service account.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Need to track the Database changes

    TheSQLGuru (1/25/2011)


    GilaMonster (1/24/2011)


    Unless you had a trace or trigger present when the changes were made, you cannot go back and get details of what happened.

    Not true. If you have...

    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 2008 R2 to SQL 2005

    ALTER TABLE <TableName> ALTER COLUMN <ColumnName> DATETIME

    Don't use the GUI, it recreates tables and takes far longer and far more resources than necessary (hence that warning)

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Uprading from Entiprize 2005 to Developer 2008/R2

    Google?

    I don't have any handy.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen (da-zero) (1/25/2011)


    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1053001-146-1.aspx

    Sometimes when a read a topic, I can't help myself thinking:

    Wait. Wut?

    He was looking through the database maintenance plan for the autogrow task, for anyone interested.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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