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  • RE: Estimate the transaction table size and partition

    http://www.google.com/search?SQL+partitioning+recommendations

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Twenty tips to write a good stored procedure

    Jeff Moden (8/12/2009)


    I meant to ask, Gail... which trace flag do you speak of?

    Now you made me have to go and look it up.....

    Traceflag 1118

    It changes the behaviour of SQL...

    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?

    Jeff Moden (8/12/2009)


    I have discovered the second lowest form of life on the planet Earth. Check out the following URL... does the article look familiar to anyone?

    http://balavardhanreddy.over-blog.com/article-29918397-6.html

    La page demandée...

    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: getting errors continuosly in the error log

    You're gonna have to ask Sharepoint people that. I have no idea what sharepoint does when it backs up.

    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: Massive database growth

    Please post new questions in a new therad. This has absolutely nothing to do with large databases

    luckysql.kinda (8/13/2009)


    There are four ways of memory extension ie /3GB, /USERVA, /PAE and AWE....

    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 using the TOP command in sql

    mish (8/12/2009)


    So does MS SQL have a TOP command then similar to the LIMIT in mySQL?

    No.

    There are two options. You can either use two TOP statements, one in 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

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (8/12/2009)


    Laugh I did at the image of Qui-gon and Yoda, both with light-sabres ready, asking Is this homework?

    😀

    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 using the TOP command in sql

    This is starting to look like homework. Is it?

    If it is homework, I gave you the general form of a query that will solve question 3. If you have trouble,...

    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: Notify when using a production database

    hi_abhay78 (8/12/2009)


    The earlier reply was correct but unfortunately , Developers need to have sysdba role .

    On dev, maybe, though I'd prefer at most db_owner on the DBs that they're working...

    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

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186865.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

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  • RE: Massive database growth

    Steve Hoyer (8/12/2009)


    This is not the moron you're looking for.

    I was not implying it was you. Sorry if you got that impression.

    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: Backed up SQL Server 2008 DB but can't restore in SQL Server 2005

    Databases can never be downgraded in version. A database created or attached to a SQL 2008 instance cannot be restored or attached to a SQL 2005 instance. The compat mode...

    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 - memory???

    Do you have AWE enabled? /3gb set?

    That max is too high. You're telling SQL it can use all the memory on the server and leave absolutely nothing for the OS....

    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: Trying to avoid an cluster index scan and use best practices for application code

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/03/19/catch-all-queries/

    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: Massive database growth

    Steve Hoyer (8/12/2009)


    Imagine that.

    Got any idea who the last person to rebuild indexes before the growth was?

    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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