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  • RE: Top Vs. Max - different results

    Roughly, because there's no table def or sample data that I can use to test...

    SELECT Odometer, RPTUTCDATE, UnitNumber, MedicNumber

    FROM (

    SELECT Odometer,

    RPTUTCDATE,

    ...

    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: Indexed Views on Sql 2005

    Why can you not create an index? Are you getting an error? If so what error?

    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: Does Relationships help improving query performance?

    Foreign keys can sometimes help the optimiser to come up with a better plan. The existence of a foreign key constraint gives the optimiser information about the data and 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: sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats

    It's since the last time SQL Server started.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Update statics needed or not after migration

    vky3 (2/15/2010)


    If You are rebuilding the indexes ,then You need not update the statistics.

    Not precisely true. Rebuilding indexes will update the stats associated with those indexes, but there's still the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: index on col where inseration is heavy

    5000 rows a day is not many inserts, that's extremely low activity. If the index is needed, create it and test impact (in a dev environment)

    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: Performance problem!

    For those of us who don't have high speed internet, please just the execution plans and indexes, zipped.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: sqlserver Trace Flags

    Colin Betteley (2/15/2010)


    Understood. But if that server bursts into flames.......

    Scripts of logins, jobs, etc.

    Bear in mind that the master DB has stuff in it specific to the server it was...

    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: sqlserver Trace Flags

    Colin Betteley (2/15/2010)


    I was looking to restore Master amd msdb to a server with a different disk structure.

    To be quite honest, moving the system DBs from one server to another...

    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: Performance problem!

    It goes back to an index scan because all the key lookups are more expensive than the scan is. A seek is not always the fastest thing and when 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

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  • RE: Do I need to upgrade Service Pack of SQl Server Client tools also?

    Yes

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

    Why are you using index hints? Are you really, 100%, absolutely sure that you know better than the query optimiser what index is best for this query with this set...

    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: SQL Server Clustering

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197454%28WS.10%29.aspx

    also

    http://www.google.com/search?q=clustering+requirements+%22windows+server+2008%22+site%3Atechnet.microsoft.com

    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: Lock and Block

    Generally nothing.

    Locking is a normal part of DB activity and is essential for ensuring data consistency across the database. There's nothing wrong with locks.

    Blocking's also normal. Means that one process...

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

    Please post new questions in a new thread rather than hijacking an existing, active thread. Thanks.

    Gail Shaw
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