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  • RE: Index Rebuild

    That info is not recorded anywhere automatically.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: One interviewer asked me this following question

    My guess would be statistics, but there are lots of possible causes and without more info it's impossible to say which.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Log file grows very big after running a job

    SKYBVI (10/25/2010)


    @ gila

    So, that means you want to say that i can do shrinking but again whenever I perform the index rebuilds, the log file will again increase and then...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to kill a process in sql server

    Sure that select's not part of a longer transaction that does have stuff to rollback?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Execution Plan

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/65831

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Log file grows very big after running a job

    Either change your maintenance so that you're not rebuilding every single index no matter what the fragmentation, or get more space to handle the large logs. Shrinking anything is a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to add 2 Temp-table

    CELKO (10/25/2010)


    The best book for a complete beginner is THE MANGA GUIDE TO DATABASES.

    Awesome book, even for the not-so-beginner.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: go command

    jay.supersaiyan (10/25/2010)


    i kno "go" isnt a part of t-sql.

    but the statement i wrote shld get executed.

    it isnt.why??

    if i remove "go" it works fine

    why???

    No idea. It looks fine.

    What's the error you're...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: go command

    sanjays-735734 (10/25/2010)


    you have to use either ";" or "GO"

    but not both of them.

    both are batch separator

    That is not true.

    The ; is a statement delimiter. It shows where the end of...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Log file grows very big after running a job

    SKYBVI (10/25/2010)


    Hi,

    I ran a maintenance plan in the weekend on a prod server.

    It had steps of checking database integrity, rebuilding indexes, updating stats and again checking database...

    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: go command

    It's simply a batch delimiter. It tells the client tool where to break apart batches to send to SQL. It is not actually a SQL command.

    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 Server 2008 (non-R2 version) question

    Brandie Tarvin (10/25/2010)


    Thanks, Gail. I just wasn't sure if R2 was being treated as a separate version or as the "upgrade" to the regular 2k8.

    It's a totally separate version. Can't...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 (non-R2 version) question

    SQL 2008 SP2 got released just a couple weeks back.

    That's like asking if MS is going to continue to patch SQL 2005 or push everyone to 2008 (2005 SP3 CU...

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

    Tom.Thomson (10/25/2010)


    I'm definitely one of those who prefers a quick solution without work. Essentially I'm extremely lazy.

    I think most good developers are to some degree.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Shrinking database

    ravisamigo (10/25/2010)


    How fast are they growing? -----> how I can check this pls

    You monitor their size over a period of time and see how the size changes.

    If you shrink 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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