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  • RE: Grrrrr Why can't I get SSMS 2008 to work like 2005 did? :(

    You mean like this? (see attachments) If not, describe what the layout should look like please.

    What are you trying and what's management studio doing when you try?

    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: No folders available under DB

    Either the files for that database were moved or the permissions on those files were changed.

    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: detach and attach

    System database can never be detached.

    There are specific ways to restore backups of system databases, and it's different for the different system databases. Consult books online for full details.

    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: No folders available under DB

    Whizkid (8/20/2009)


    Is there any way to find what was happened before this db suspect?

    From the error messages it shows that when SQL restarted the data and log files for the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Temdb Allocation Error

    Paul Randal (8/19/2009)


    Why did you CHECKDB model?

    I asked him to just to be sure that there wasn't some corruption in model that was coming across when TempDb's recreated. Purely precaution.

    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 (8/19/2009)


    Or video it, and review the video yourself. It's amazing what you'll note when you watch yourself in action. Sounds narcisistic, but it's really useful.

    Do that 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: retriving the list of the tables

    Irfan (8/14/2009)


    select * from dbo.sysobjects ( not sys.tables)

    sysobjects is deprecated in SQL 2005 and will be removed in a future version of the product. Rather use sys.objects, if you...

    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: Log Space

    You can query sys.databases to see why the log space is not been reused. Check the log_reuse_wait_descr column.

    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?

    Grant Fritchey (8/19/2009)


    Did you get any constructive criticism? That's the stuff I live for, when someone actually has useful insights, not just "You did great" or "You stink."

    Nothing really useful....

    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: unused indexes

    espanolanthony (8/19/2009)


    so deleting indexes that have reads 0 is a good idea?

    Not without doing some additional investigation to confirm that the index is not used anywhere. You need data over...

    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: No folders available under DB

    Whizkid (8/19/2009)


    I don't have DB back up but I 've MDF & LDF file and using those files I was re-attached the database.

    So do you still have a problem or...

    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?

    Roy Ernest (8/19/2009)


    GilaMonster (8/19/2009)


    *Woot* Just got TechEd evaluation scores. Bar one comment, very nice!

    Congrats Gail... Party Time.. 🙂

    Party time next time I see my Lead (probably next week), I'll make...

    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 analyze performance of a cursor

    Profiler with an SP:Completed event should do the trick. That'll show the total duration, reads, writes and CPU that the procedure did.

    The sp:completed event is not one of the default...

    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?

    Kit G (8/19/2009)


    Can you direct me to the reference that explains what you did?

    Reference? I'm sure there's one somewhere but I wouldn't know where.

    Ok, when there are multiple queries combined...

    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?

    Jack Corbett (8/19/2009)


    GilaMonster (8/19/2009)


    *Woot* Just got TechEd evaluation scores. Bar one comment, very nice!

    Congrats, but of course exactly what I'd have expected for you, barring the one negative comment.;-)

    Comment essentially...

    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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