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  • RE: Performance issues

    Please post entire query, 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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  • RE: Microsoft gold partner

    Did you look here: https://partner.microsoft.com/global/program and more specifically here: https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40013031

    Fees apparently vary by country, so contact them and ask (provided your company meets all the other requirements)

    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: Introduction to Indexes: Part 3 – The nonclustered index

    jcrawf02 (11/18/2009)


    Adding a clustered index that covers multiple columns within a table is not necessarily advantageous, because it will expand all of the non-clustered indexes as well. (from part II)

    Yes

    Therefore,...

    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: Urgent: Adding Primary Key to the 70 Million table

    DBTeam (11/18/2009)


    So it won't create any problem right,

    even though if we insert million of records into that in the future.

    Maybe. You need to test.

    Unique constraint will not delay the insertion...

    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: Stored procedure poor performance

    Please post full query, 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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  • RE: Urgent: Adding Primary Key to the 70 Million table

    An nvarchar(255) is a rather bad choice for a clustered index. Clustered indexes should be narrow (among other things). 512 bytes is not narrow.

    If there an existing primary key on...

    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 2000 backup unable to see local drives

    It's a clustered SQL Server. The only drives that will be visible to it are the drives which are set up as cluster resources and dependencies for the SQL service....

    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 timeout exception

    gr8.jain (11/18/2009)


    now i attached the execution plan

    Where?

    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: Information requested on system views in 2K5

    Look in Books Online for the page titled "System Views" (Also available on msdn)

    As for counts...

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/04/14/on-counts/

    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: DB Run slow

    http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/

    http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/

    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: Dropping Primary Key Column Constrint

    DBTeam (11/17/2009)


    how long it will take to drop it..

    How long is a piece of string?

    There's no simple answer. Depends on the size of the table (in MB), the other activity,...

    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 2008 functionality for Audit Log

    On 2008 Enterprise you can look at Change Tracking, Change Data Capture and SQL Audit. Haven't actually worked with any of them, so can't really give you an opinion. Play...

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

    1b. Probably, but why would you want to use MAX? Jason posted showing a couple of queries for getting the row counts from sys.partitions.

    2. Don't understand the question. Order of...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Distinct Column and NULL Counts for Metadata Extract

    cos_ta393 (11/17/2009)


    My hope is that sql server has it in system table / views that I can just query.

    It doesn't. If you want to know how many rows have...

    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: automatic checkpoint of transaction log

    Very strange. Not sure what's happening there.

    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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