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  • RE: Performance in using Select "TOP 5000000 ..." in sql

    TOP 5000000? That's an aweful lot of rows to be 'limiting' a result set to. What's the purpose of that TOP clause?

    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 view transaction log for SQL Server 2005

    WilliamB (8/12/2009)


    @Gail - I'm guessing these are the Error Logs you are talking about? I'm still a bit of noob so any info to clarify this would be great.

    Yup.

    They're...

    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: To Reduce the size of the Log File

    dakshinamurthy (8/12/2009)


    Was there any thing wrong in my question, if so please let me knew. I am new to this. So i am not getting it.

    Nothing wrong with the question,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How do I disable SQL Logins in SQL SERVER 2000?

    Reposted here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic769257-5-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: temp tables

    If you insert rows into a temp table in SQL and commit the transaction, the rows will be in the temp table until they are deleted or the temp table...

    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 view transaction log for SQL Server 2005

    WilliamB (8/12/2009)


    Similar problem here, I need to find out if the database logs will indicate that a database has been recovered and I need to show the log as proof...

    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: Shrink Table

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic769118-5-1.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: Should use XML indexes or not?

    Why don't you test both options and see which is better? Offhand, I can't say which'll be faster.

    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: temp tables

    Sorry, don't understand what you're asking. Transaction behaviour for Temp tables is pretty much the same as for normal tables.

    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: To Reduce the size of the Log File

    Please read through this - Managing Transaction Logs[/url]

    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

    Try backing up to the local disk and then copying the files over the network after. It only takes a small network glitch for the backup to fail.

    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: Shrink Table

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic769118-5-1.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: Shrink Table

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic769118-5-1.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: help using the TOP command in sql

    Top's not going to work here. Since you're using SLQ 2005, you can use the ROW_NUMBER function. If you can post table structure and sample data I can write 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: help using the TOP command in sql

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic769125-1291-1.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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