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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White NZ (7/22/2010)


    GilaMonster (7/22/2010)


    ...And if we want to reference BoL, from the page on sys.indexes:

    Description of index type:

    * HEAP

    ...

    Heap? As an index type? My brain...

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

    Jack Corbett (7/22/2010)


    I got the answer right because of Grant's recent SQL University blog post[/url] which also lists 8 and references BOL.

    I must admit, I don't agree with that. I...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Max size of an index

    Only limit on the size of an index is the available storage size, just like with tables.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to recover suspect database

    Please post your question in a new thread. Thank you.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: MSSQL Server 2008 Express Concurrent Connections

    No limit on concurrent connections, though your DB is too large for 2008 Express. It has a DB size limit of 4 GB. R2 ups that to 10GB, but remember...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: viewing the compiled plans in cache

    Query sys.dm_exec_cached_plan CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan. The exec plan is in the second, in xml format.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Terrible code, trying to tweak

    Grant Fritchey (7/22/2010)


    Uhh... words fail me, but I'd be willing to discuss an hourly rate to untangle the mess.

    Agreed. That looks like a good couple days of work to rewrite....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Add identity field to an existing table, change clustered primary key to non-clustered ,and created a clustered index on the new identity field

    Could you clearly state your question in your post please?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Dirty Reads

    Henrico Bekker (7/22/2010)


    Do not use row and table locks.

    How would not using locks prevent dirty reads? You suggesting page locks only?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: ?? After Rebuild!! I need to backlog with truncate and shinkfile but got the error "database in use". Why not???

    nuengharit (7/22/2010)


    My meta-data size (.mdf) is 93.7 GB and log file (.ldf) is 30 GB.

    That sounds fairly reasonable.

    When i imported many images in sql per week. I have log file...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SP3 and stand alone reports server

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic956937-1291-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: ?? After Rebuild!! I need to backlog with truncate and shinkfile but got the error "database in use". Why not???

    Frankly you should remove both the truncate and the shrink step. There's no need for either.

    If the rebuild is causing excessive log growth, switch to bulk-logged recovery before the 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: System Table Differences

    sysobjects exists in 2008, as does syscolumns and all the other familiar SQL 2000 objects. They're views, not tables, deprecated, included only for backward compatibility and will be removed in...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: database dropped -- recovery????

    raamaakrishna (7/21/2010)


    Any help in getting the data recovered is highly appreciated....

    At this point you're only real option is to hope that the undelete software manages to recover the files intact....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Functions that were in SQL 2000, that are not in SQL 2008

    Try books Online for 2005 and 2008 - the What's changed section.

    Gail Shaw
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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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