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  • RE: Upgrade adviser warning

    It's complaining about the two-part naming in the order by, but you should just remove the order by and the Top 100 % completely. Order by is not honoured 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

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  • RE: Server Consolidation - What to measure to determine if you should

    Have you read these blog posts?

    http://tomlarock.com/2009/07/sql-server-consolidation/

    http://tomlarock.com/2009/07/sql-server-consolidation-part-deux/

    http://tomlarock.com/2009/07/sql-server-consolidation-part-trois/

    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: Sysindexes table Cannot Repair

    bmannar (7/31/2009)


    if we run the entire script (mentioned in my previous post) it fixed it sometimes...

    We fix most of our common dbcc issues by running (checkpoint..... )

    In that case you...

    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: Sysindexes table Cannot Repair

    He already ran CheckDB, See the 4th post in this thread for the results.

    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: Learn A Bit More

    The only free training events down where I live are usergroup meetings and Microsoft's DevDays and TechDays (which happen once a year). I make a point of going to those...

    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: Estimated execution plan not showing?

    What's the query that you're running? If you run the query with the actual exec plan option on, do you see the execution plan?

    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 a stored procedure

    Please post execution plan, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    The first two things I'd do here would be to replace the table variables with temp tables and to get rid of that while...

    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: You are being asked, Your tempdb is full How do you troubleshoot...

    Rajesh kasturi (7/31/2009)


    I apologies for putting MCITP, I removed it.

    Nothing wrong with having the cert listed in your Sig if you've earned it. I used to have all mine listed....

    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: MCDBA for sqlserver2000

    I'll second the recommendation of the SQL Server Bible by Paul Nielson. Very good book.

    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?

    Ian Scarlett (7/31/2009)


    Am I the only one that seems to have these problems?

    Nope. Go back many pages in this thread and you'll find my tales of woe of dealing with...

    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: MCDBA for sqlserver2000

    Why? Why 2000 and not 2005?

    There are a lot of good books for SQL 2000 that will give you tonnes of info.

    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: I could compile a list of stored proc - UnUsed List

    There's no easy way. You can query the plan cache (sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, sys.dm_exec_query_stats, sys.dm_exec_sql_text), but that'll only tell you if the procedure's in cache. There are a number of reasons why...

    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: IF Statements affecting performance ?

    meandnayan (7/30/2009)


    I know that the code without IF statements would be better enough than a code with IF statements.

    Maybe

    But, just a matter of curiosity, will the IF statements perform really...

    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: More Can Come From Less

    I am so happy to be consulting these days. The only time I work a 50 or more hour week is when I've misjudged the workload, so I only have...

    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 has encountered 1 occurrence of I/O Requests taking longer than 15 seconds

    It means pretty much what it says, SQL's detecting IO requests that take more than 15 seconds to complete. That is, the time between SQL issuing an IO request 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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