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  • RE: Nonclustered indexes

    They're stored just like any other value.

    You can use DBCC PAGE to view data/index pages if you like. It's undocumented, but there are enough articles mentioning it.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Pivot -need help

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost870654.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Pivot SQl query

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

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    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Pivot query

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost870654.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: Pivot Query

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    No replied to this thread please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost870654.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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (2/21/2010)


    Following MVP's on twitter last week during the MVP Summit made me wish I was there.

    Me too.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 development certification process

    Braindumps are cheating. They are actual questions taken from the exam in violation of the NDA that all exam candidates have to accept.

    Using or supplying braindumps can result in your...

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

    CirquedeSQLeil (2/21/2010)


    Enjoy your break.

    No break (except from the forums). On-site with client this week.

    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?

    Can ask someone(s) to keep an eye on the corruption forum for the week please? I'm pretty much offline for the week. Thanks

    Gail Shaw
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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Performance Tuning Woe's

    Chris Kitchen (2/20/2010)


    1. Would you recommend looking into anything else to try and pin point where the table scans and deadlocks are coming from?

    Yes. Look at the exec...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Delete Records

    eddy-644184 (2/20/2010)


    Didnt know that about the select * vs the select Key

    But i try to minimize the use of select *, so its kinda a habit for just typing what...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Delete Records

    eddy-644184 (2/20/2010)


    I will on the other hand always make sure that for the IF EXISTS i always select 1 field only and mostly this would be the primary key (indexed)

    EXISTS...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Delete Records

    Hunterwood (2/16/2010)


    It´s allways a good rule of thumb to use TOP 1 together with EXISTS, because it prevents the database engine from doing unneccesary work.

    Got an example that proves that?

    I...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Performance Tuning Woe's

    ChrisM@home (2/20/2010)


    Can you please confirm which version of SQL Server you are using?

    Chris Kitchen (2/20/2010)


    I'm running SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition on Win2k3 Enterprise Edition

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

    subbarayudu.net 37258 (2/20/2010)


    Which events I selected while running the trace file for Stored procedure.

    For what with stored procedures? Execution? Execution plan? compiles? changes? something else?

    What permissions i need to run...

    Gail Shaw
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