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  • RE: improving performance of stored procedure

    gardenlady (10/16/2009)


    So that's one issue that I found just by going through Gail's steps re the execution plan (although could not find a way to print it/save it, running 2005...

    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: Simple SQL Server Interview Questions that people have a hard time answering...

    GSquared (10/16/2009)


    So far as I know, and I could be wrong, this scenario basically results in restoring to the point immediately prior to the lost log backup file, and losing...

    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: Minimum Permissions Required to run DBCC Page

    I think it's sysadmin. I'd be very surprised if it's anything less since you can use it to read any page, anywhere in any database.

    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's wrong with this?

    Looks like MS Access. Specially with the comment 'under a single button click'

    Likes without wildcards

    Non-aggregate comparisons in the having clause

    The same two predicates repeated several times with ORs between them....

    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: Simple SQL Server Interview Questions that people have a hard time answering...

    GSquared (10/16/2009)


    Of course, if that particular page was affected by some transaction in the lost file....

    As far as I'm aware, it doesn't matter. With a missing log file, the page...

    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: improving performance of stored procedure

    gardenlady (10/16/2009)


    Here's some sample code. I'll look at the execution plan next. Thanks!

    Forgive me for being blunt, but that's almost 600 lines of T-SQL. Perhaps you could narrow down 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: Simple SQL Server Interview Questions that people have a hard time answering...

    talltop-969015 (10/16/2009)


    GSquared (10/16/2009)


    GilaMonster (10/16/2009)


    GSquared (10/16/2009)


    For hard-to-find, it can be a missing log backup (delete the file) that breaks the backup chain.

    Want to be really nasty? After deleting said...

    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: Poor Man's Enterprise Feature - Lock Pages in Memory

    Jeff Moden (10/16/2009)


    Heh... wouldn't a reasonable alternative be to only have SQL Server on the SQL Server box? 😉

    Unfortunately not. I've heard of a case where SQL was the only...

    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 (10/16/2009)


    Black Ice

    Shadowrun?

    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?

    jcrawf02 (10/16/2009)


    Steve Jones - Editor (10/16/2009)


    whoop upside?

    what's next, shocking keyboards? loud raspberries when someone responds?

    Seconded, all in favor?:-D

    Aye.

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Simple SQL Server Interview Questions that people have a hard time answering...

    GSquared (10/16/2009)


    For hard-to-find, it can be a missing log backup (delete the file) that breaks the backup chain.

    Want to be really nasty? After deleting said backup, take a...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Simple SQL Server Interview Questions that people have a hard time answering...

    Index types. Never yet found someone who could tell me two types and the differences between them

    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: How I can make look like I expert on SQL Server?

    ItalianOlgi (10/16/2009)


    Or I shall ask the SQL Server expert from India I hired already for very little money?

    If you hired him for very little money, you'll probably find he's 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: List Indexes with Include Columns

    Not built in, but Kimberly Tripp wrote one.

    http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/sp_helpindex2-to-show-included-columns-%2820052b%29-and-filtered-indexes-%282008%29-which-are-not-shown-by-sp_helpindex.aspx

    http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Updates-%28fixes%29-to-sp_helpindex2.aspx

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Database keeps getting analysed.

    Auto close is true by default on SQL express.

    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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