Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 33,826 through 33,840 (of 49,552 total)

  • RE: Backup Log Blocking CheckPoint

    That's normal, the checkpoint and the backup log both have to write to the transaction log, hence one will block the other.

    If it's happening often, check the duration of checkpoint,...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Upgrading SQL 2000 to 2005

    Please post new questions in a new thread. Thank you.

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Full Backup versus Differentials

    AndrewSQLDBA (2/24/2010)


    Differential backups would be taken on a daily or multiple times thru the day and night to accommodate that if a failure were to happen, the database and 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Database Corruption Problem with CheckDB results - How bad is it?

    A page restore will not work here. Besides, it looks like there's more than just three pages damaged. The comment about not being able to latch a page with reason...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: density values too high

    Too high? That's a value of 0.0000035. Why do you think that's too high and why do you think that the index isn't useful?

    Density is defined as 1/(number of unique...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Database Corruption Problem with CheckDB results - How bad is it?

    If you want some reading on corruption, you could start with this. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Corruption/65804/

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Database Corruption Problem with CheckDB results - How bad is it?

    Fatal.

    You have damage to a couple of your allocation pages (specifically PFS pages). This kind of corruption is irreparable.

    Take a tail-log backup (if you can), then restore your full...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: primary database coruppeted,it is in the suspected mode want to retrive

    Lynn Pettis (2/24/2010)


    Please be aware that by using the ALLOW_DATA_LOSS repair option you may have done just that, lost data.

    However it is the only repair level allowed when 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: How much memory should be allocated to SQL Server ?

    Joy Smith San (2/24/2010)


    Sometimes application runs very very slow.

    That isn't necessarily insufficient memory. Yes, memory may help, but you should also look at what's running and see what needs fixing/changing...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Deadlock error

    Enable traceflag 1222. That will write a deadlock graph into the error log whenever a deadlock occurs. Post it here.

    Most deadlocks are a result of non-optimal code or non-optimal indexes...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: How much memory should be allocated to SQL Server ?

    12-14 GB. No more (and I'd err on the lower end of that). OS needs memory to manage memory, not good to starve it.

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Full Backup versus Differentials

    david.c.holley (2/23/2010)


    I fully understand the difference between a full backup versus a differential. Given that my experience as an Admin on a SQL Server database is nil, is it easier...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Full Backup versus Differentials

    GT-897544 (2/23/2010)


    Incase if you need old database take a snapshot of database before restore, so that if you think you need revert back just revert back snapshot.

    Are you talking about...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: SQL server is down.

    Find out why it's down. All other troubleshooting steps will be based on the results of 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: primary database coruppeted,it is in the suspected mode want to retrive

    GT-897544 (2/23/2010)


    What is the status column value when you query select * from sysdatabases.

    since this is in the 2005 forums (and hence should be a 2005 database) SELECt state_desc from...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Viewing 15 posts - 33,826 through 33,840 (of 49,552 total)