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  • RE: Odd series of events in log - runs checkdb frequently throughout the day

    rudy komacsar (8/26/2009)


    hmmm ... could it be that there is a transaction log backup that runs DBCC ?

    It's not running CheckDB. It's saying when CheckDB last ran successfully.

    08/05/2009 06:41:00,spid58,Unknown,CHECKDB...

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

    Luke L (8/26/2009)


    GilaMonster (8/26/2009)


    Yay. ISP down, again. This time their main basestation is down, affecting every single one of their customers. It's been down since around 3am this morning, eta...

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

    Yay. ISP down, again. This time their main basestation is down, affecting every single one of their customers. It's been down since around 3am this morning, eta until repaired, unknown.

    And...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: datafragmentation

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please.

    Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic777331-146-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: defragmentation

    While inserts and updates can cause fragmentation, deletes cannot. Inserts may, or may not cause fragmentation, depending on what the index key is. Updates may cause fragmentation or may not,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Space required to restore a backup

    Rob Goddard (8/26/2009)


    Generally the uncompressed backup size will be equivalent to the size of the used portion of the data and log files.

    Used portion of data, yes. Used portion...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Different ways of using EXISTS

    kramaswamy (8/26/2009)


    Yeah, the execution plans were all identical. So, you're saying that the read-ahead reads are something that could change even if I were to re-run the exact same query?

    Correct....

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  • RE: SQL Server 200* database architecture

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic777318-146-1.aspx

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  • RE: Excel 2010 and Gemini

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22office+2010%22+beta

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Different ways of using EXISTS

    Dave Ballantyne (8/26/2009)


    dont attempt to compare relative performance of queries with doing it.

    Well....... depends.

    Personally, I never use it when comparing queries.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Unique Index Causing Slow Read Performance

    Need execution plans to say anything useful here.

    What's the output of STATISTICS IO and STATISTICS TIME for the query with the unique index and the one without?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Different ways of using EXISTS

    It's the logical IOs that you need to compare to see which does the most work. Read-ahead reads means that some of the required pages were not in memory (maybe...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Space required to restore a backup

    The backup is the size of the data in the database, not the size the database was at the time of backup. To restore it, you need free space to...

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

    Plus correcting the bad advice helps all those numerous people who run across the thread via google but never post. Otherwise they're maybe going to take that bad advice as...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Performance Issues and Sql Server Memory

    Edit: double post

    Gail Shaw
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