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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Can someone keep an eye on this one please. I'm not going to be around much this weekend

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic828709-65-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Clarification on results of using option(maxdop 1)

    Table and index definitions?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brent Ozar was asking on Twitter about anyone in or willing to relocate to the San Fran area looking for a Senior SQL DBA position. Scaling and management experience required.

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

    Smells like sinking ship to me. Definitely fix up resume. Even it's not needed, good thing to do.

    Reminds me of 1st place I worked. For 2 months upper management were...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Performance optimization on huge data

    Only three?

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  • RE: Clarification on results of using option(maxdop 1)

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

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to optimize this query

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

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Clarification on results of using option(maxdop 1)

    douglas.allison-1136597 (12/4/2009)


    Am a right in assuming that I have forced that Sproc not to try to run in parrallisms over the two processor?

    Correct. MAXDOP sets the maximum degree of parallelism,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Index

    Raghavender (12/4/2009)


    How to find all the user defined indexes in a database.

    Query sys.indexes

    And is this possible to find their fragmentation level at a time ?

    Query sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Help with looping in Transactions.

    Chandu-212374 (12/4/2009)


    Can someone please modify the code below to work.

    What's it not doing, what error is it throwing? Basically, what's wrong with that code that you want help in...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DB shrink and backup error in sql2008

    Firstly, why oh why are you shrinking your database?

    Please run this on the DB in question, if it returns any errors post them.

    DBCC CHECKDB (<Database Name>) WITH NO_INFOMSGS, ALL_ERRORMSGS

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Performance optimization on huge data

    Grant Fritchey (12/4/2009)


    More, absolutely more. The key values plus the include values plus the clustered key, it has to add up to more.

    Depends what the key is. If it's...

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  • RE: allocating memory for execution plan cache

    The max/min settings are for the buffer pool. The buffer pool consists of the data cache, the plan cache and some other much smaller caches. The allocation of the buffer...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Dropping a cached plan?

    Try splitting into two procedures, but no need for two reports. Have the report call a wrapper proc that checks the parameters and calls one of two procedures to do...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Moving data out of a partition

    The answer to that depends completely on how the table (if we are talking table partitioning) has been partitioned, what the partitioning key is and where the partition boundaries are.

    Gail Shaw
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