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  • RE: What will be good/accepted threshold values for Average Disk Seconds/Read, Average Disk Seconds/write

    SD1999 (3/5/2010)


    I think, as per microsoft, Disk Queue length should not exceed 0.02 seconds

    Queue measures the number of things waiting. Hence it's an integer value and it's a count 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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  • RE: What will be good/accepted threshold values for Average Disk Seconds/Read, Average Disk Seconds/write

    I never said the avg disk queue length was incorrect. It's not. All perfmon counters report accurate, correct values.

    The avg queue length is near-impossible to interpret on a SAN....

    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?

    Ran across an interesting article while working through my rss reader

    http://lifehacker.com/5486247/learning-just-in-case-versus-just-in-time

    You can't decide to lean about something when you need it if you don't know it exists, but at 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: What will be good/accepted threshold values for Average Disk Seconds/Read, Average Disk Seconds/write

    There's too much between the OS and the disks to get a meaningful threshold for queue length when there's a SAN. It's one of those counter where a value far...

    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: Temporary Storage and its impact on the Transaction Log

    Robert Biddle (3/5/2010)


    Index rebuilds are nightly.

    That'll cause the overnight log backups to be large

    Other than that, if there's a time of day where they're consistently large, consider running a server-side...

    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?

    Here you go

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324270

    On Server 2003 RTM, the setting for SynAttackProtect is 0. With SP1 it was changed to 1.

    iirc, that's the one that we had to change back to...

    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: Reporting Services Question from Exam 70-445

    Where did you get the question from?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Primary Key VS Clustered Index

    Transactional replication is the same. Primary key required.

    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: Consulting needed

    mike 57299 (3/5/2010)


    I think the rate would be around $75 per hour. It is negotiable.

    I'll be blunt. You aren't likely to get anyone really good for that. I...

    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?

    I'll look. This was a few years ago though...

    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: Moving DBs from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008

    Please run DBCC CheckCatalog on the original database (on SQL 2000).

    On SQL 2000, checkDB does not run checkcatalog, hence schema corruption (as this appears to be) can go unnoticed for...

    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: SSMS first time sql query MUCH slower than subsequent times - why ?

    Plan caching. The first time you run the query it has to be compiled and an execution plan generated. Subsequent queries used the cached execution plan.

    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: Reporting Services Question from Exam 70-445

    Is this question from the actual exam, or from study material?

    If it's from the actual exam, then this is a major violation of the NDA and you should edit that...

    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 many of you have done Certification for SQL Server?

    Jack Corbett (3/5/2010)


    If you are already known as a top-level person (Grant, Gail, etc..), then the cert is unnecessary.

    When you're bidding for work (consulting), a collection of qualifications can 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: Temporary Storage and its impact on the Transaction Log

    Robert Biddle (3/5/2010)


    In my environment, I've noticed some very large transaction log backup files. This is not a very large database and it is not being written to a lot....

    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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