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  • RE: Question regarding Index Fragmentation

    kramaswamy (11/16/2009)


    I take it then, that despite my original intuition, the leaf level is actually index level 0, not the highest index level?

    Indeed. The leaf is level 0, the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: running databases on a SAN

    Ask the server administrator or whoever set up the physical server which drives are SAN drives and which ones are direct attached storage. Th SQL they look the same.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: sql timeout exception

    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: Question regarding Index Fragmentation

    Grant Fritchey (11/16/2009)


    Direct from the horses mouth, the 1000 page number is arbitrary, not based on emperical evidence.

    According to Paul, it was an estimate based on knowledge of the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Question regarding Index Fragmentation

    When looking at index fragmentation, it's usually only necessary to look at the leaf level (level 0). The others are very often small and, especially for a frequently used index)...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: External Hard Disk Problem

    You trying to create a database on there? Query a database on there? Exactly what are you doing?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: directory lookup for the file failed with the operating system error 2

    I'd prefer to see the screenshot, to see exactly what the path has been set to, exactly what the filename has been set to. The script's just going to show...

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

    Aaahhhhhh!!!

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic817076-146-1.aspx

    Spoon feeding?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: directory lookup for the file failed with the operating system error 2

    Then go to "Edit Attachments" (it's part of the user control panel) and delete some of your old uploads.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Trunc log on chkpt

    newbie2sql (11/15/2009)


    Hi,

    One of our databases log file growing very huge. One of our team members recommended the following instead of dbcc shrinkdatabase (of course i would recommend...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: directory lookup for the file failed with the operating system error 2

    Not according to the error message you aren't.

    Directory lookup for the file "e:\as.mdf\as.mdf" failed

    Check what you've got set for the directory and what you have for the filename....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: delete records in sql without entry in transaction log

    obtllc (11/15/2009)


    backup log database_name with truncate_only

    Suggesting that with not mention of what it does, what the effects are and what you need to do afterwards? Bad advice.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Sql server

    This looks like spam. An near exact copy-paste of part of the previous post, with advertising junk at the bottom.

    In case it's not. Get your windows admins to look into...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Count(*)

    I can't remember the details, but I think it's a case where it's supposed to be accurate, but not 100% certain to be if there are ongoing changes and open...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to get the query which need to be compiled

    Also check out the Plan cache miss and plan cache insert events (also in profiler)

    I don't recall if the SP:Recompile and TSQL:StmtRecompile show compiles or just recompiles. Test them out.

    Gail Shaw
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