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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (11/6/2009)


    Now for some light reading over the weekend.

    Light reading it ain't. I have 2 copies in my luggage, must weigh a couple kg in total.

    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: Group by clause on partial select

    I don't understand what controls the rows that you want. Do you want the top 4 records, the top some other, unique values by some column, or something else.

    Please read...

    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: Group by clause on partial select

    Only if all other columns are part of aggregate expressions. The query you have there is not valid. This would be.

    SELECT col1, max(col2), Max(col3)

    FROM TableA

    GROUP BY col1

    Think about it. You're...

    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?

    Bob Hovious 24601 (11/6/2009)


    I'm part of the group listening to Itzik Ben-Gan talk about tuning

    Sitting in post-con on unstructured and semi-structured data. Currently discussing full-text search. Not overly interested...

    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: CASE WHEN in WHERE clause

    Take a look at this article, and the ones that will be published next week for info on indexes

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68439/

    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: what is sql scheduler?how e can use sql scheduler?

    It's part of the internals of SQL that controls query execution. You don't use it directly. SQL does.

    Please download books online, read through it and then ask any questions that...

    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: CASE WHEN in WHERE clause

    ramadesai108 (11/6/2009)


    What do i need to check/uncheck in Execution plan to set Full Table Scan OFF?

    LOL. Performance tuning would be easy if one could do that.

    What he's suggesting you to...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Slow execution time on query who perfoms Updates

    Parameter sniffing?

    Stale statistics?

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

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/6/2009)


    Grant, see if someone will post an NDA summary in the newsgroups. Would be nice for those of us stuck in the trees.

    Mail Ed and ask...

    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: Slow execution time on query who perfoms Updates

    jocampo (11/6/2009)


    Why a composite and not three different Indexes?

    Because a 3-column index means that SQL can do a seek on all three columns in one go. 3 individual index means...

    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

    Look in the SQL error log.

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

    jcrawf02 (11/6/2009)


    Geek of the Week is too uppity to mingle in person, eh?:-P

    His high eliteness is busy taking notes on the session content. 😉

    It sounds from the blogging like there...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Msg 8992, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Check Catalog Msg 3853 after sqlserver2005 sp3

    Excellent. Glad to hear it.

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

    GSquared (11/6/2009)


    If I'm not mistaken, PASS was Mon-Thu, right?

    Mon-Fri. Main conference was Tues-Thurs, pre-con on monday, post-con on friday.

    Grant says Hi.

    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: T-SQL Performance Question

    Inner join, no. Left/right join, they're two different queries with two different results, so performance isn't the issue....

    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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