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  • RE: recovery problem....

    Rajesh kasturi (8/7/2009)


    I am just searching find alternate ways to recover for different scenario.

    There might be solution

    Answer my questions about what you're doing with the transaction log and I'll...

    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: Restore Error!!!

    Did you specify the restore must be done WITH STANDBY?

    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: SQL Profiler running on server side causes high CPU usage

    Edit: Nevermind. Must read posts more carefully in future.

    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: Index Usage

    Yeah but likes with leading wildcards will always, in the absence of other SARGable predicates do a full index/table scan

    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 (8/6/2009)


    Jeff Moden (8/6/2009)


    I've not confirmed my plane reservations but I'm 99.99% sure that I'm going to be in Lil' Rhody from 9/6 to 9/12. That means that...

    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: IsNumeric checks

    Remove the 'd'? (Why's it there in the first place?)

    Cast to float then to decimal?

    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: Master list of tasks for a complete backup

    If you've backed up the system databases (specifically master and msdb) and restored those, the system will be as it was at midnight. If you haven't backed up the system...

    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: Disable and enabling index frequently

    It was a feature added in SQL 2005 for cases where an index needs to be dropped for data loads. It means that the index can be recreated without needing...

    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: SQL Server Error codes

    select message_id, severity, text from sys.messages where language_id = 1033

    As for custom errors, from the Books Online entry for RAISERROR

    msg_id

    Is a user-defined error message number stored in the sys.messages...

    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 (8/6/2009)


    I may have the wrong boy. I've posted a question to him to find out.

    I suspect you do have the wrong guy.

    karthikeyan: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/UserInfo151404.aspx (today's poster)

    karthikeyan: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/UserInfo449952.aspx (PhD...

    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: Truncating the log

    Chris Harshman (8/6/2009)


    DUMP is a desupported feature, and Microsoft plans on removing it

    Dump is gone in SQL 2008.

    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: Index on large tables and performance

    Try switching the table variables to temp tables, see if that make a difference.

    If it doesn't, please post table definitions, index definitions and execution plan, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    Also, is that...

    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: IsNumeric checks

    Not a bug.

    Isnumeric returns true if the value passed can be converted to any of the data types.

    select CAST('0.d00' as float)

    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: Very Urgent Please Someone can?

    Tell your colleagues that they should check with people before restoring backups.

    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: Very Urgent Please Someone can?

    Only if you have a backup.

    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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