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  • RE: Introduction to Indexes

    Maybe.

    By primary key, do you mean clustered index? The pk is only clustered by default, it can be enforced by a nonclustered index. I'm going to assume you meant clustered...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Bloated Transaction Log

    Snapshot replication or transactional replication? Very important to know the difference.

    Backup with truncate will do nothing for the bloated log if the problem is replication. It'll just break the log...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Question on Filegroups, that I think I know the answer too...

    Depending who you read, recommendations for TempDB range from 0.25 files/core to 1 file/core. Regardless, the X files per Y cores is a standard recommendation for TempDB and is done...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Question on Filegroups, that I think I know the answer too...

    jasona.work (11/19/2009)


    I've been reading around, on "best (or recommended) practices" for SQL Server. One recommendation seems to be to have ".25 files per CPU core" for your DB. ...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Bloated Transaction Log

    What recovery model? Are you doing log backups? Is the replication log reader running? (check the replication monitor)

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Shrink DB and Log on 2008

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

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Can anyone define a value of 65536 in master.dbo.sysdatabases.status?

    Take a look at the new system views. sysdatabases and many others that you would know from SQL 2000 are now deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Introduction to Indexes: Part 2 – The clustered index

    Johnc (11/19/2009)


    We don't update the key column but rows can be deleted. Would this deletion be the cause of the fragmentation?

    No. Deletes can't cause fragmentation. They can result in pages...

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  • RE: cx11nf toner

    Spam. Reported

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Page Allocation

    Sorry, don't understand the question.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Can anyone define a value of 65536 in master.dbo.sysdatabases.status?

    Since you're using SQL 2005 (or I assume you are, since this is posted in the SQL 2005 forums), use sys.databases instead. The statuses are neatly broken down in a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: 98% Clustered Index Scan

    GilaMonster (11/19/2009)


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

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  • RE: Can SQL 2000 with Simple recovery model Can SQL 2000 with Simple recovery model participant in Backup and Recovery of Snapshot transaction replication

    Edwin-376531 (11/18/2009)


    During my testing, I run into some issues that indicated the publisher database is in Simple recovery model.

    Transactional replication does not depend on recovery model. http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2008/12/05/a-new-sql-myth/

    What issues did you...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Introduction to Indexes: Part 3 – The nonclustered index

    Jack Corbett (11/18/2009)


    j_braclin (11/18/2009)


    i dunno. This kind of confused me.

    Well then ask some questions. What are you confused about? I'm sure Gail, the author, will try to clarify,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: 98% Clustered Index Scan

    A clustered index scan is a table scan, so that's usually a bad thing.

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

    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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