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  • RE: MCSE or MCITP

    SKYBVI (9/17/2010)


    do any1 have MCITP dumps??

    Braindumps are cheating. They are actual questions from the actual exams posted in violation of the NDA on those exams. Using or requesting braindumps can...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to get List of forieng Key column name

    The schema views that should contain this will be sys.columns, sys.foreign_keys and sys.foreign_key_columns. Joins are pretty simple and obvious

    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: May we put the Forums and/Or blog activity on Resume?

    You can put anything you like into a resume. However if you do, make sure that it shows you in a good light. If you put such a comment 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

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  • RE: Spid blocking itself

    touchmeknot (9/17/2010)


    Thanks for the link. And yes, you are right about the wait type as well.

    So is there a solution to the problem ?

    It's not a problem.

    SQL runs queries...

    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: Spid blocking itself

    Not unusual.

    The query's running in parallel, multiple threads executing a single query under a single spid. Nolock's not changing anything, because it's not blocking on a lock. If you look...

    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: Create database - MaxSize Reached

    No corruption, no crashes. A simple error saying that there's not enough free space when you go to insert data.

    Do note that, for other than Express, the max size 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: Recovery mode of Subscriber

    Very likely. Good 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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (9/17/2010)


    When we hit 20000 inh the Thread should we start another thread labelled:

    "Are the posted answers getting better?" 😛

    That's easy.

    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: Page Splitting

    Brandie Tarvin (9/17/2010)


    If a record needs to be inserted between two other records, and there's not enough room on the page, a new page will be created and the records...

    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 check db changing schema version

    That's likely. Can you ask them to run a trace and make sure that there's nothing else running.

    If need be, I can check with an ex-dev team member about CheckDB...

    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: Replace the Null values

    USE MYDB;

    GO

    select UserName, ISNULL(Cast(Userid AS VARCHAR(10)), '') AS 'UserID'

    FROM Tablename;

    GO

    You can't set an int column to '', it'lll be implicitly converted to 0. Hence the int column needs to become...

    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: D: drive is full and transaction log is full

    WayneS (9/17/2010)


    ... but after the one on the woes of being abused on the forums. 😀

    Don't think I'm qualified to write that one. After all, I'm the 'abuser'. 😉

    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 check db changing schema version

    Shouldn't. CheckDB just checks. It should not make any changes unless run with one of the repair options.

    Is that the only job running at the time? No index rebuilds? Nothing...

    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: Recovery mode of Subscriber

    vellenks (9/17/2010)


    I still perplexed how come this happened since the subscriber has never been published.

    I'd love to know as well. Was it ever restored from a backup of a 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: Microsoft SQL Server, Error : 2

    Please note: 2 year old thread.

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