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  • RE: DBCC Commands like CHECKDB and calculating estimated Duration

    Nope.

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/post/CHECKDB-From-Every-Angle-How-long-will-CHECKDB-take-to-run.aspx

    If you don't know what the problems are, do a full checkDB. Two reasons

    1) If you post here asking for help, it's the first thing I'll ask you to...

    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: DB Status?

    Which version did you try running that script on?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Chris Morris-439714 (11/22/2010)


    Our DBA caught some news on Twitter:

    "Jack Corbet is in hospital, they suspect he has had a heart attack, he seems ok as he was on twitter last...

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

    Unless you have a specific form of contention, spitting into 8 files on the same drive may not give you much if any performance gains. Are you seeing contention on...

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

    Why 8 files?

    What's the max size your TempDB has ever reached?

    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: DB Status?

    What version of SQL are you running?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: My script for index rebuid n reorganize

    Why write your own when there are so many good and well-tested scripts around. http://www.sqlfool.com for starters.

    My guess, those are really small indexes (<24 pages)

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

    MSDN is wrong (for 2000 as well as 2005).

    If the index has no fragmentation and the file it is in has no fragmentation then it may be that the logical...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Passed 70-448!

    The questions are taken at semi-random from a pool of questions. The exact number and breakdown will differ for each candidate. Check the list of skills covered over at the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Datbase is in Suspect mode

    Excellent. One thing left to do.

    GilaMonster (11/19/2010)


    In addition, do some diagnoses on that IO subsystem. Something is not right and, unless you find and fix the root cause, this (excluding...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Max Worker Threads Setting in SQLServer

    If you have SQL 2005, why are you posting in the SQL 2000 forums? People are going to assume you are running SQL 2000 and give you an answer appropriate...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Data collection

    There's nothing built-in that stores that.

    Why would a monitoring job not be approved? Surely management wants the servers monitored?

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

    Create a SQL Agent job, schedule it every 30 min. If you don't have permission to create it, ask your DBA.

    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: Work around for SQL server performance issue

    What version of SQL Server?

    What are the settings for the following (select from sys.configurations)

    AWE Enabled

    Max server memory

    What operating system?

    What's the output from SELECT @@Version?

    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: Query optimization for huge tables

    dhaval.joshi.dj (11/21/2010)


    and as a database I am using DB2.

    This is a Microsoft SQL Server forum, not a DB2 forum. We're all familiar with SQL Server here. If you have a...

    Gail Shaw
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