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  • RE: Lightweight Pooling Mode

    Possibly because they're doing something that doesn't work in fibre mode. There's a number of things that don't. Difficult to say for sure though.

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

    SQL does not randomly change its configuration settings. Someone went in and enabled that feature.

    Check the SQL Error log, there will be an entry in there from 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

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  • RE: Index Performance Analysis

    Start by identifying queries that are performing badly.

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

    Gary Varga Old (2/9/2010)


    The level of quality appears to vary greatly. Most are very good. Occasionally, I have been given reason to call into question the person's award.

    I would...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: High Availability with zero RPO

    You can do asynchronous mirroring without a witness, but it doesn't have the same level of data protection as synchronous, manual failover is required and there's a chance of data...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: An Administrative Security Hole?

    paul.knibbs (2/9/2010)


    Or, I could shut the machine down and use some sort of boot CD to entirely delete the file containing the security event log, thus bypassing the "clear" option...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: An Administrative Security Hole?

    EdVassie (2/9/2010)


    Although it is right that people with high-level rights are trusted, it is also important to verify they are not abusing that trust.

    Absolutely.

    Any unexpected restart of the SQL...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: An Administrative Security Hole?

    Considering it requires local administrator permissions, I wouldn't really call it a back door. Someone with local admin could just as easily stop SQL and copy off the data and...

    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: Error 9002 transaction log for database "abc" is full

    Please read through this - Managing Transaction Logs[/url]

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Clustered Index Scan: How to fix ?

    Please post table definitions, index definitions and actual execution plan, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    The exec plan that you posted earlier is the estimated plan and is missing certain key information.

    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: Study guide on MS 70-450 exam

    Henrico Bekker (2/8/2010)


    Gail, Steve, taken from the MS site on 70-450...

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    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Shifting from Simple to Full Recovery Model

    Maybe, but you should test. The time for restoring the full won't change. Whether the restoring of all the tran logs is faster or slower than a single diff, that...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to find out unused indexes

    Roust_m (2/8/2010)


    If I do weekly index rebuild for all indexes on user tables in all user databases, would this mean that all the indexes are going to show on this...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Unrecoverable data purge?

    Have a look at this thread where the complexities of 'unrecoverable deletes' was discussed.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic857162-391-1.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: Study guide on MS 70-450 exam

    Well, all the study books are copyrighted, and I'm sure you're not asking for illegal material. Most of the free stuff is questionable and often braindumps (questions taken straight 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

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