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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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • RE: Shrinking Database

    If it has to grow again, yes.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • RE: Select Statement Performance

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please.

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

  • RE: IF Statements affecting performance ?

    Unlikely.

    Oddly enough, row-by-row code doesn't usually suffer badly from parameter sniffing. Parameter sniffing is worst when the optimiser compiles a statement thinking that there's a very small number of...

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