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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Here's an interesting opinion on braindumps.

    "The software complaints [about the use of braindumps] are more from the elites trying to keep people out."

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost889310.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: missing_index_details inequality columns

    repent_kog_is_near (3/24/2010)


    Can you filter in profiler by tablename ( I know you can filter by database).

    Typically no.

    The object name column is not populated for ad-hoc SQL (T-SQL Batch completed,...

    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 pass a Microsoft certification [70-432]

    You get a mock up of some tool and asked to do some job.

    That's about all I can say safely.

    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: Interview questions on SQL Server 2005.

    ande.venkat50 (3/24/2010)


    hi, will you plz send me sql server dba interview questions

    Different companies will ask different questions. Memorising sample questions is unlikely to help.

    Advice:

    Relax

    Don't exaggerate your abilities.

    If you don't 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: Database is in recovery status.

    charipg (3/24/2010)


    no errors in errorlog.

    No messages whatsoever relating to this database? Can you post the latest error log (just zip and attach the ERRORLOG 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: Fatal error 824

    Considering that this thread is almost 3 years old, I'm guessing the OP has come right somehow.

    Rebuilding indexes is not a way to fix corruption. It might (read might) make...

    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: Index

    Maybe

    A 25000 row table with no indexes at all is going to perform badly, because the only way to find a row is to read all 25000 rows.

    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: missing_index_details inequality columns

    repent_kog_is_near (3/24/2010)


    Do you take the missing_index_details recommendation at face value,

    Never.

    or do you always dig up the query for which the reco is made, and then analyze the above scenarios...

    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: To find out actual owner of the table

    m_p_weber (3/24/2010)


    select o.name as owner from sysobjects o with (nolock) inner join sysusers u with (nolock) on o.uid = u.uid

    where u.name = 'username'

    Those are both deprecated system objects included...

    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: Clustered Index Insert, object: tempdb.dbo.CWT_PrimaryKey

    mazzz (3/24/2010)


    I see lots of objects created with names like _WA_Sys_...... which must be legit/system generated.

    Auto-generated statistics

    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: Help: I/O error 38

    Diskeeper may well be the cause of the problem.

    http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2009/12/10/a-tale-of-checkdb-failures-cause-by-3rd-party-file-system-drivers.aspx

    http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2009/12/29/diskeeper-2010-update.aspx

    http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2010/01/08/dbcc-check-commands-encounter-problems-and-reports-errors.aspx

    p.s. Please in future post new questions in a new thread rather than resurrecting an 8 year old thread.

    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: STATEMENT LEVEL RECOMPILATION

    r.dragoi-1095738 (3/24/2010)


    We have some data warehouse applications and some tables which are not indexed etc , in such cases we use it.

    Um..... ok......

    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: STATEMENT LEVEL RECOMPILATION

    r.dragoi-1095738 (3/24/2010)


    In my own query I had a few more tables, but it can used just like I said OPTION (Recompile)

    Still begs the question, why are you forcing hash joins?

    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: Injecting Your Own Bias

    I don't care much where the PASS Summit is. I've done checks and comparisons and it's at most a difference of 2 hours travel and about $100 for various cities.

    Somewhere...

    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: Help with tuning the Query

    Table and index definitions please

    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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