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  • RE: I am trying to upgrade from sql 2012 (11.0.6020) to sql 2014 sp1.

    fantom (4/11/2016)


    Source and target editions are both enterprise.

    Are you certain about that? Check @@version, check the installer for what edition it is.

    The error message you posted indicates an edition...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Server diagram - table in other DB

    ttdeveloper (4/11/2016)


    This seems to be a big miss by MS.

    No, it's not. Neither is the DB diagram being restricted to a DB showing a lack of forethought

    The database is 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: Stored Procedure running Indefinateley

    Why Readuncommitted? Is incorrect data acceptable here?

    Try changing the table variable to a temp table, see if that gets you any improvement.

    Also see if you can get rid of those...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: MSSQL installed but not available

    Can you attach a screenshot of the 'not available', as I'm not sure what you're looking at.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Production DB size issue

    It's not going to affect your backup sizes. Backups only contain the data in the DB, not the empty space. A 500GB database containing 100GB of data would have a...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Production DB size issue

    rohan1424 (4/11/2016)


    Hi John ,

    Will try your suggestion .Checking on the test server will give me exact timelines and will help to lessen the impact on prod server. Thanks for your...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Production DB size issue

    Yes, the allocated space will still be there. Why does that mean that you must shrink the file?

    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: Production DB size issue

    Why do you need to shrink the files?

    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 2008 corruption

    Do you have a clean backup and an unbroken chain of log backups since that full backup?

    Repair's going to throw away at least one page of table Paid, as far...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Could it be Tempdb corrupt ?

    Put the latest service pack on. There's no reason to be running RTM of SQL 2008 R2.

    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: CXPACKET wait

    They clear the plan cache when changed, so don't do them during working hours.

    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: CXPACKET wait

    The only thing that CXPacket alone tells you is that queries are running in parallel. Nothing more.

    Increasing Cost threshold (it's not measured in seconds) is a good idea. Other...

    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?

    TomThomson (4/9/2016)


    For me, the restriction to SQL collations would have been a killer

    The collation limitation's not documented, so I'm wondering if it's a bug (though whether a bug in the...

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

    Jeff Moden (4/8/2016)


    it sounds "perfect" for "audit-only" and other "WORM" tables such as closed invoice/invoice detail tables. In fact, MS advertises Stretch DB as just exactly that...

    It's the foreign...

    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: Could it be Tempdb corrupt ?

    johnwalker10 (4/8/2016)


    This problem could be an issue with the database page or a problem with the SQL Server engine when determining what the expected allocation unit should be.

    It's a bug,...

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