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  • RE: Log File is MASSIVE

    Atul DBA (11/25/2009)


    My suggestion for reconfiguring the mirror was based on db size of 200 MB and Log size of 2 GB which is not good sign. Even it was...

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

    Alvin Ramard (11/25/2009)


    I'll give the poster of the first item one point for saying: "(only if this is allowed in your business case)"

    No points from me for that. That...

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

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  • RE: Log File is MASSIVE

    roelofsleroux (11/25/2009)


    Gila you sound like Doomsday Prophet. This is South Africa.

    Jy ook? So baie mense van Suid-Afrika op hierdie forums.

    The only natural disaster we know of so far...

    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: Log File is MASSIVE

    btw, I used to work with a DBA team that managed a mission critical stock market trading system. We had a windows cluster, the SAN mirrored to a secondary site...

    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?

    Ok, I vote this as one of the more ... 'questionable' recommendations I've read here recently.

    As your log file is very huge, and it is required to Truncate the log...

    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: Log File is MASSIVE

    roelofsleroux (11/25/2009)


    Gila the reason we use mirrors is because this is for a stock exchange trading application.

    If the database fails for some reason, the mirror kick in. If there is...

    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: Duplicate Index

    nadersam (11/25/2009)


    I prefer to remove those duplicate indexes but i am afraid it causes any performance degradation.

    So do some tests (in a dev or test environment), see how queries perform,...

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

    Please post SQL 2000-related questions in the SQL 2000 forums in the future. If you post in the 2005 forums, you're very likely to get 2005-specific solutions.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Forgot Sql server password

    Jack_Thiru from chennai (11/25/2009)


    If this is correct then security is not there for passwords, if i know a user i can directly login using windows authentication and reset passwords as...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Log File is MASSIVE

    Atul DBA (11/25/2009)


    As your log file is very huge, and it is required to Truncate the log file for proper utilization of disk space, you need to stop the Mirroring...

    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: Log File is MASSIVE

    roelofsleroux (11/25/2009)


    Is it really necessary to make Transaction Log Backups every 30min/hour?

    There are two things that affect the frequency of log backups.

    1) How big you are willing to let 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: Rant of the Day

    Personally for a Y/N column, I'd use CHAR(1). Yes, it could be a BIT, but that requires additional logic in every query and unless there are other bit columns in...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Choice of index to use

    Unless you have a really good reason for wanting a duplicate index, or there's a major performance degradation when you remove it, take it out. SQL will use the cheapest...

    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: Restart of SQL Server will affect transaction logs

    What do you mean by 'rotated'?

    Restart won't do anything to the database transaction logs, they'll be read when the server restarts in order to do restart recovery, but a shutdown...

    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: Recovery Model logging

    SQL Server Error log.

    Gail Shaw
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