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  • RE: Selecting Oracle catalog view gives wrong results using Linked Server in SQL Server 2008

    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/Topic885294-1044-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Deadlock Victim to be identified

    Do you get them while building the search indexes?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Backups

    T_SqueaKquel (3/17/2010)


    (ii) Checksum before writing to media

    No. Backup with the CHECKSUM option.

    And both are for full and log backups, not just log

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Backups

    No, you don't want to run a checkDB every time you back the log up. That's just insane. If you're backing up every 15 min, CheckDB can easily take longer...

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

    T_SqueaKquel (3/17/2010)


    1. How much overhead would it add if I include a verify backup when finished, is there a way to test it out.

    Put it this way. Would you rather...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to pass a Microsoft certification [70-432]

    Tim Weintz (3/17/2010)


    You most likely be under surveillance the entire time and will only be provided with an erasable felt pen and a calculator.

    Excluding the calculator, that's standard exam centre...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: TSQL using parameters does not use the index

    Do you think that you could grab that Statistics XML plan and post it please? As I mentioned, I mixed the two profiler events up, and the showplan doesn't have...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: TSQL using parameters does not use the index

    Edited..

    Is that the only index on the table? No primary key?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Backing up a database with a Full Recovery Model

    Your data is committed to the data file. That happens shortly after a transaction completes. In full recovery, the inactive log records are not cleared until they are backed up.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to pass a Microsoft certification [70-432]

    The pass mark is 700. The number of questions varies and there's no way to tell how the questions are scored.

    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: TSQL using parameters does not use the index

    That just shows a table scan. It's not using any index at all, estimating one row only. Looks like it's only a partial plan too, not sure why, so lots...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: simple recovery model Log truncation

    1) Whenever a checkpoint occurs. Only log records up to the beginning of the oldest open transaction can be truncated.

    2) Do it in batches and run CHECKPOINT between those batches.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Avoiding Sort task in Execution Plan

    Bhuvnesh (3/17/2010)


    if possible, required ORDER can be set in physical table and then avoid "order by" clause in derived query

    Order of returned rows is NOT guaranteed unless ORDER BY...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Avoiding Sort task in Execution Plan

    David Nash-367764 (3/17/2010)


    What I meant to say when I said it's not a poorly performing query is that the sql generated is very efficient. The query itself still takes too...

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

    The Dixie Flatline (3/16/2010)


    Gail, in ancient Geece you would have been a goddess in the Geek pantheon.

    :hehe:

    I have 3 t-shirts now that have geek written on the front. One 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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