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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    E.

    Edited, because Alvin timewarped the answers after I answered.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: TempDB Corrupt -- S appended to SPID

    GregoryF (4/1/2010)


    Since when did the S get added?

    SQL 2005 RTM iirc

    It seems to be dumbing down the log, it should be a given that any SPID < 50...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: TempDB Corrupt -- S appended to SPID

    A system process has 's' appended to the session id in the error log. Check when SQL starts up, lots of system processes then.

    I suggest you contact MS's customer support...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DBCC Timewarp

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/1/2010)


    And here I was thinking 137 parameters from the limitations of the datetime data to 1, 3, or 7 as the precision.

    😀 I didn't even notice...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to deal with a large transaction log file

    Bradley B (4/1/2010)


    well you learn something new every day. I could have sworn that broke the log chain.

    Nope.

    Backup log ... with truncate_only breaks the log chain. Switching...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to tune this query

    Judy-363345 (4/1/2010)


    GilaMonster (3/31/2010)


    Please post complete table definitions, index definitions and execution plan, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    Have you considered normalising that table?

    CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_UID] ON [dbo].[myTable]

    (

    [UID] ASC

    )

    CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Decoding the SQL Server Index Structure

    Paul Randal (4/1/2010)


    Steve Jones - Editor (4/1/2010)


    Paul Randal (4/1/2010)


    Nice one Steve!

    Just so you know, this was inspired by Mrs. Tripp's index writing. We were trying to copy her style.

    You mean...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to deal with a large transaction log file

    Bradley B (4/1/2010)


    When you shrink your log file you will break the transaction log chain and cannot use your previous logs to restore to a point in time

    Shrink does not...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: how to improve performance of query

    Table definitions and index definitions please.

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

    Grant Fritchey (4/1/2010)


    GilaMonster (4/1/2010)


    Grant Fritchey (4/1/2010)


    I just have to share this one. I just got my idea for my next editorial (which, yes, I know Steve, is WAY overdue).

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost894601.aspx

    Editorial on...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: how to improve performance of query

    Please post query, table definitions and index definitions, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    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 (4/1/2010)


    I just have to share this one. I just got my idea for my next editorial (which, yes, I know Steve, is WAY overdue).

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost894601.aspx

    Editorial on free vs paid...

    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 Timewarp

    I certainly hope so. That would be a major breakthrough, regardless of whether it confirms or refutes the current theories. I suspect they'll find things that they weren't expecting as...

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

    Lynn Pettis (3/31/2010)


    Duplicate post, I'm just not looking for the other one...

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic893936-1291-1.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

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  • RE: MAXDOP

    aaa-322853 (4/1/2010)


    How was SQL Server blocking it's own threads within the same query?

    What happens is that SQL parallels a particular query operator, all the threads have to complete before 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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