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  • RE: Remove database from read only mode,error 5105: device activation error (very urgent please)

    vishal (8/9/2009)


    the account with which sql servies run and is having full control over the db and log files but still my db is in suspect mode and im unable...

    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: problem with query to update based on value in previous row

    The corrected version is here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic767556-9-1.aspx

    Threads can't be deleted here except by a moderator. No worries, if it happens again, just edit the first post to be a link to...

    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 to the Clode - No Excuses

    Phil Factor (8/9/2009)


    When I was working for a national UK bank, a while back, a passenger jet crashed within half a mile of our secure data center (placed outside 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: Backup to the Clode - No Excuses

    Depends where you are sitting in the world. Where I am, backing up into the cloud is just not an option, it's not security or risk, it's simple time, bandwidth...

    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: Does anyone have an example SLA?

    rsteckly (8/9/2009)


    Does anyone have a sample SLA for a SQL Server DBA? I need one to use a template...

    An SLA is something that you need to get from your...

    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: Becoming More Productive

    5-year old thread alert.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How do I tell which indexes are not being used

    Also note that indexes that have not been used at all (no seeks, no scans, no lookups, no updates) will not appear in index_usage_stats. An index has to be used...

    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: in SQL 2008,only MDF,NDF,no Ldf,how to attach

    msc (8/8/2009)


    CREATE DATABASE [dbname] ON

    (NAME = Name, FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\db.mdf')

    FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG;

    That only works if the database has been shut down cleanly. If it has...

    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?

    Paul White (8/8/2009)


    GilaMonster (8/7/2009)


    Anyone really know their way around replication?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic766992-146-1.aspx

    Could the OP have made any less effort in that thread?

    It's possible, difficult, but possible.

    Here's another very terse question. I think...

    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?

    Bob Hovious (8/7/2009)


    Thanks, Jack. I just tried to download it again and no luck. Sounds like a fun problem, maybe someone else can help...

    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: any tool for find hitting count of database

    Performance Monitor. Look for the Transactions/sec counter.

    Profiler. Look for the RPC:Completed and T-SQL Batch Completed events.

    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: A Story of the Deleted Transaction Log

    jose (8/8/2009)


    I think I would have detach and attach single file

    EXEC sp_detach_db @dbname = 'pubs'

    EXEC sp_attach_single_file_db @dbname = 'pubs',

    @physname = 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\pubs.mdf'

    sp_attach_single_file_db attaches...

    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: A Story of the Deleted Transaction Log

    imSQrLy (8/7/2009)


    I was just checking on the latest posts and noticed a ranking i haven't seen before of "Mr or Mrs. 500". I never paid too much attention to 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: NOT EXISTS ?

    Easier to understand if you switch them around.

    In is looking for matching in a list of values. So a where clause predicate like this one

    WHERE SomeColumn IN (1,2,3,4,5)

    will...

    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: A Story of the Deleted Transaction Log

    That's SQLMag, not SSC. Thread topics drift here, Steve doesn't intervene unless there are personal insults flying around, which doesn't happen often. Sometimes they drift back on topic, sometimes they...

    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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