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  • RE: Troubleshoot high SQL Server Memory usage

    SQL!$@w$0ME (2/15/2016)


    But in this case the locked pages in memory is enabled.

    Yes, exactly. And because it's enabled Task Manager is reading far, far lower than it should be and giving...

    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: Troubleshoot high SQL Server Memory usage

    Don't use Task Manager to track SQL's memory. It lies!

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2016/01/19/stop-using-task-manager-to-check-sqls-memory-usage/

    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 Users and Password Policies

    If the login has Policy on, then SQL uses the password policy from Active Directory, from the domain if the SQL instance is installed on a domain member, from 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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jasona.work (2/15/2016)


    How do you feel if someone comes back and tells you that they tested a solution you provided before they told their bosses it was the solution?

    Shocked that someone...

    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: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.

    No, the SQL Server being clustered is not the problem.

    A timeout occurs when a query/stored procedure call takes longer than the command timeout is set to, and so the application...

    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: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.

    There's no error in the log, because it's not a SQL error. A timeout is a client-side error. The client decides that it's waited too long for the query to...

    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: Specific Lookups vs Wide Tables vs EAV; plus FULLTEXT on all

    Look at something like Microsoft DocumentDB. It's an online service (like Azure SQL DB, but a document database), not a product that has to be purchased, servers provisioned for and...

    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: SCAN vs. SEEK

    GilaMonster (2/14/2016)


    What exactly are you trying to do? Post table definitions (as CREATE TABLE statements) and sample data (as INSERT statements) please

    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: SCAN vs. SEEK

    Err... Seek and scan are SQL's two internal operations for accessing indexes, they're not something you explicitly use.

    What exactly are you trying to do? Post table definitions (as CREATE TABLE...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: DBA -tasks and solutions

    Everything listed in this thread (other than the two tools Ed mentioned) are free.

    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: Database in Recovery Pending State

    manub22 (2/13/2016)


    On running the mentioned statement in one of previous responses, the database came back to normal:

    ALTER DATABASE dbXYZ SET ONLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

    That only works after whatever caused 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: Help to optimize a SP

    GilaMonster (2/12/2016)


    Table definitions, index definitions, function definitions and execution plan please.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Help to optimize a SP

    Table definitions, index definitions, function definitions and execution plan please.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: DBA -tasks and solutions

    PiMané (2/12/2016)


    1. DEFRAG/REBUILD INDEXES

    - Can create a maintenance task on SQL Server (it does this out of the box)

    Please don't. The maintenance task is braindead. Use Ola's scripts, use Minion...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Landing SQL/database gig

    It's fairly rare to find an entry level DB position. Most people who got into the DB area did so from another IT position. Helpdesk or developer, maybe with your...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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