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  • RE: Free SQL Discovery Tool

    MAP - Microsoft assessment and planning toolkit. Free download

    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: PREEMPTIVE_OS_FILEOPS

    I'm chatting with an expert on this, but from the messages in your last post it looks like you have IO subsystem contention - not enough IOPS to handle 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: Election Day

    Nelson Williams-487553 (11/2/2010)


    I find that irresponsible. Here we are on the government created Internet engaging in the free exchange of ideas and you don't want to take part.

    The elections...

    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: Datetime tricks

    I'd say just write and submit. It's not as if there are multiple people offering to write it.

    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: Election Day

    Nelson Williams-487553 (11/2/2010)


    So, are you going to vote today?

    No.

    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: Bad SQL Jokes

    I'll start with two that generally result in things being thrown at me.

    knock knock

    Who's there

    sp_

    sp_who?

    spid 1, spid 2, spid 3, .....

    A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up 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: Replacation of Database

    Please don't post a new thread, I've asked the mod to move this 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: Maintennce Job step to shrink the transaction log on every db ~ dynamic SQL

    Why are you setting the recovery back to full? You've said this is just a dev/test server and, since you're willing to break the log chains I assume there's no...

    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: Does clustered table have IAM page?

    vgv8 (11/2/2010)


    Do I understand correctly that it is used only for Full Table Scan?

    It's one of the allocation pages, it'll be needed for more than just scans. There must be...

    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: Maintennce Job step to shrink the transaction log on every db ~ dynamic SQL

    Also, don't shrink to 0. Shrink to what you know to be a reasonable size for the databases.

    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: Error Performing SQL Shrink Log File

    Replication Monitor

    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: Error Performing SQL Shrink Log File

    ryan.reinaldi (11/2/2010)


    GilaMonster (11/2/2010)


    Is there supposed to be replication in this DB? Is there an active transactional replication publication?

    Yes, this database is a subscriber from another server and also a publisher...

    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: Error Performing SQL Shrink Log File

    Is there supposed to be replication in this DB? Is there an active transactional replication publication?

    What does DBCC OPENTRAN return?

    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: PREEMPTIVE_OS_FILEOPS

    Daniel Britten (11/1/2010)


    To be clean I am running DBCC CHECKDB ('database name', noindex) WITH PHYSICAL ONLY.

    Bear in mind that those options will miss a lot of errors. You should be...

    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: PREEMPTIVE_OS_FILEOPS

    pavan_srirangam (11/1/2010)


    Dbcc checkdb is checks the integrity of the database why you want to do every 2 weeks

    Because it's good to know about corruption while it can still be...

    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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