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  • RE: Working abroad - From South Africa

    As in moving to another country and working there? Or staying at home and working for companies/clients overseas?

    If the former, then the first thing you need to consider is how...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: When does locking START?

    alex.sqldba (6/6/2016)


    So the locking DOES start from the beginning of the search? Or only after it has located the rows?

    A session must have a lock to access a row. So...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Blocking by a sleeping task.

    Nothing particularly strange there. If a sleeping connection still has a transaction open, it will still hold locks. You can get an idea where the problem is by querying sys.dm_exec_connections...

    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: DBCC CHECKDB JOB STOPPED EXECUTION

    Instead of guessing, maybe add some logging and diagnostics to the script?

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

    Brandie Tarvin (6/3/2016)


    1) NOT EXISTS doesn't always work. Even the ones that SQL auto-generates don't always work when it comes to dropping objects. SSMS says "command successful" but the object...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (6/3/2016)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/1/2016)


    SSMS is decoupled from SQL. You need to install that separately.

    Wait. Client tools are no longer an option to install with the rest...

    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?

    ChrisM@Work (6/3/2016)


    GilaMonster (6/2/2016)


    Grant Fritchey (6/2/2016)


    jasona.work (6/2/2016)


    I read this and suddenly felt millions of DBAs cry out in horror...

    (Yes, it's the Daily WTF, scarily it might even be (mostly) true)

    Great story....

    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: DBCC CHECKDB JOB STOPPED EXECUTION

    Look through your logs and history, if the job failed there should be a reason somewhere in some log.

    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?

    Grant Fritchey (6/2/2016)


    Wow!

    And the explanation... "SQL Server sucks!"

    Oracle, not SQL Server in this case, but kinda yes.

    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?

    Grant Fritchey (6/2/2016)


    jasona.work (6/2/2016)


    I read this and suddenly felt millions of DBAs cry out in horror...

    (Yes, it's the Daily WTF, scarily it might even be (mostly) true)

    Great story. A true...

    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: Temp DB filling on simple update statement?

    chandan_jha18 (6/2/2016)since there are matching rows, it will update all the rows in 'eligibility' table but the OP needs the column updated on rows which are matching.

    Will it really?

    UPDATE eligibility

    SET...

    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?

    jasona.work (6/2/2016)


    Happy National Leave the Office Early Day!!![/url]

    So, who's going to celebrate this day today?

    😀

    I wish, but I've got a social club meeting from 5pm til 6.

    I think I'll celebrate...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Must declare the scalar variable "@value4".

    You still have a severe SQL Injection vulnerability that you need to fix before your company becomes the next 'data breech' headline.

    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: DBCC CHECKDB JOB STOPPED EXECUTION

    coolchaitu (6/1/2016)


    So, can we conclude that it stopped when it ran for the first time due to log backup job running at same time?

    What evidence are you using to jump...

    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: Can dbcc checkdb job and backup job run parallelly?

    7 year old thread.

    Please create a new thread for a new 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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