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  • RE: New Picture of Steve Jones in the Daily Email

    mazzz (8/28/2009)


    GilaMonster (8/28/2009)


    He also insisted that anyone who dressed casual or semi-casual was ignoring reality and would never get a top job

    at any time, or just at work?

    I now have...

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

    Silverfox (8/28/2009)


    I take my hat (if i had one) off to people who constantly answer their questions, knowing that they have already asked the same question in multiple topics.

    There's...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: New Picture of Steve Jones in the Daily Email

    He also insisted that anyone who dressed casual or semi-casual was ignoring reality and would never get a top job

    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: Query execution speed half on anything other than x5570 core 0

    SQL from 2005 onwards handles the NUMA architecture just fine. However, with 4 cores (how many physical processors?) and 6 GB memory, I don't see how the memory can be...

    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: Backup file size error (size same as log file)

    Is there a question here? Are you concerned about the backup file size and, if so, why?

    Full database backup or log backup?

    How big's the data file? How much of 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: Query execution speed half on anything other than x5570 core 0

    No idea offhand. This might be something worth contacting customer support about. I could understand if the Hyperthreading was enabled, but not when it's disabled.

    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 to use if condition in where clause

    If cannot be used within a query. The CASE statement is what you want. There should be some good examples on how to use it in Books Online.

    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: DBCC CHECKDB consistency errors

    Not uncommon. CheckDB repair deallocates pages to fix the errors, not unusual to have errors in the nonclusters afterwards.

    Run CheckDB again, this time with the repair_rebuild option. Afterwards, run checkDB...

    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: Unable to Truncate 200GB Log

    Rob de Vos (8/28/2009)


    After a lot of searching I found your link to sp_removedbreplication and it cleaned the database from what ever was in there.

    I then did

    BACKUP LOG Gemini WITH...

    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: Query Run Very Slow on SQL 2005

    sp_updatestats only updates stats that SQL thinks are outdated. When upgrading you need to update all statistics. Use UPDATE STATISTICS.

    If it's still slow after that, please post table definitions, index...

    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: Good books (advanced) on query optimization/tuning

    Grant also wrote a full (paper) book on Query tuning - SQL Server 2008 Query performance tuning distilled (or something like that). Also check out the last of the Inside...

    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: Performance Issues and Sql Server Memory

    JonJon (8/27/2009)


    Standard, that is why I was curious abuot the/3GB option

    When you asked about memory above 2GB, I assumed it was enterprise as there's no reason for asking about memory...

    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: Which Join having more I/O and CPU Cyecle ?

    Paresh Prajapati (8/27/2009)


    As per Loop join have more and cpu cycle i think, Am i right?

    No you're not. It depends on what they're joining.

    If one join type always used more...

    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?

    GSquared (8/27/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (8/27/2009)


    I may agree to a point.

    Asking this:

    i need the query(dbname,size,recoverymodel) for all databases in a server.

    tells me you haven't even tried to find an answer yourself 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: SortOrder - differnt results on two different SQL servers that are different patch levels

    Maxer (8/27/2009)


    So a query runs on SQL Server A and it returns in the "proper" and expected order, it runs on Server B which is not as up to date...

    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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