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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    For your monday evening entertainment: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic997896-357-1.aspx

    There are days I just don't want to know...

    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: How to delete database on production server

    Open management studio, connect to server. Right click database, select delete. Check that you deleted the correct 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: New User, just wanted to say hi

    Yay. Someone who can read and knows what a search engine is. I like you already!

    If you want some laughs and have several hours, there are two more such threads...

    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: Full back up failed

    There are no errors in that message. It's cut off, only the first chunk's there.

    Check the SQL error log. If a backup failed it'll be logged there.

    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: Audit database usage

    dant12 (10/4/2010)


    I want to save to a table, I can't because the SP_TRACE_CREATE doesn't let me

    No, you absolutely do not. Not unless you want to cripple performance. Tracing to a...

    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: How does Winrar handle unused space in an MDF file

    Depends what that unused space looks like. If it once was part of a table, there will still be values on those pages. SQL doesn't zero out a page once...

    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: Optimization best practices

    brainy (10/4/2010)


    However make sure you are running Update stats whenever you rebuild index. Even though you have set auto update statistics, sometimes its good to update statistics whenever you rebuild...

    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 on instance startup

    David O (10/4/2010)


    Feel free to mock and ridicule. I'm guessing this one might wind up on the never ending "Are the questions getting dumber" thread. 😀

    Nah. That's for really dumb...

    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: Optimization best practices

    Why do you want to shrink? Databases tend to grow as more data gets put in them. It's in their nature.

    Shrinking causes massive fragmentation and will just result in 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: DBCC Checkdb on instance startup

    CheckDB is not running on startup.

    Those messages are not saying that checkDB has completed. Check the dates in the messages. They are saying when CheckDB last ran successfully (without error)

    2010-10-04...

    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: SQL Most costly queries

    http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/

    http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/

    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: Simple Recovery model

    All data modifications in SQL are always logged in the transaction log, regardless of recovery model. Primarily the difference between full and simple recovery is when the inactive portions of...

    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 Help

    Two words:

    SQL Injection

    Make sure you're familiar with the SQL injection vulnerability and that you've taken appropriate steps to prevent hacks from occurring, because this procedure is vulnerable.

    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: find the views dependency on other views

    Please don't crosspost. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic997349-146-1.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: find the views dependency on other views

    Please don't crosspost. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic997349-146-1.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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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