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  • RE: msg 824 wierd one

    if emergency mode repair fails and you have no backup, you are out of luck. emergency mode repair is the last resort.

    What might work is if you select the data...

    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: Can I stop a Killed/Rollback process

    Wait. Rollback has to complete. You can restart SQL, but then the rollback will still have to complete and the entire database will be unavailable while that happens.

    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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  • RE: Index Usage

    SanjayAttray (8/4/2009)


    Agreed with Matt. Rule of thumb: Never use like operator on a very large table. It kills.

    More correctly, never use LIKE with a leading wildcard on 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?

    Teched over for another year. Good conference, lots of fun. Sessions went quite well and ratings (last time I checked) were very nice though final ratings will only be available...

    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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  • RE: Optimizing a stored procedure

    Switching from Temp Tables to table variable is not going to help with IO problems. they are treated exactly the same regarding their location (memory or disk) and when 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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  • RE: Optimizing UDF calls in SP.

    Bob Hovious (8/3/2009)


    One question though: If you do a select against a view or an inline table valued function, doesn't the resulting query plan only use the columns...

    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: Shrinking Database

    If it has to grow again, yes.

    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 (8/1/2009)


    Although I'm not quite as well-versed in dealing with corruption issues as you are I'll make sure I check in there at least once a day for stuff...

    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?

    Jan Van der Eecken (8/1/2009)


    Enjoy TechEd, Gail! Are you presenting?

    Yup!

    Doing a session on query hints and plan guides late on Monday and a session on evaluating indexing strategies on...

    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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  • RE: IF Statements affecting performance ?

    Jeff Moden (8/1/2009)


    It would be a great addition to your blog but it would also make a hellofa nice article for SSC, too!

    Maybe what I'll do is blog it, then...

    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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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Well I'm off to TechEd tomorrow and looking at the schedule I have, I doubt I'm going to be able to post here much during the next 4 days. In...

    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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  • RE: IF Statements affecting performance ?

    Oh sure. I must actually write a blog post on this, people keep asking.

    If statements don't have a direct affect on performance. They can't, they're just flow-control, not actual processing....

    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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  • RE: recovery problem....

    You're in full recovery model and you have no transaction log backups? How on earth does that work without your log completely growing out of control?

    Are you truncating the transaction...

    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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  • RE: Select Statement Performance

    barani (8/1/2009)


    in a nut sheel will,

    Select Col1, Col12, Col15 FROM [Table]

    improve performance to this statement

    Select Col1, Col 2, Col 3 ......., Col 25 FROM [Table]

    Maybe.

    If you're got indexes 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Select Statement Performance

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please.

    Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic763603-338-1.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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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