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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (6/29/2009)


    BTW, below my Codd Oath, the other saying I have posted, again, no one appreciates:

    The Rules: They may be stupid, arbitrary and irritating, but god help you if...

    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: Disaster Recovery - An Afterthought?

    Chris Harshman (6/29/2009)


    No offense to anyone intended, but to me the title of this editorial was misleading. Disaster Recovery is a concept bigger than just having proper backup/recovery processes...

    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: Transaction Log is reseted

    Could be anything, but Shrinkdatabase shrinks both data and log files. Data file shrink's the bigger problem, but log file shrink can cause issues too.

    Bottom line, if you don't want...

    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: Irregular Size of Differential Backup File

    venu_ksheerasagaram (6/29/2009)


    I am having one case here-- I have given a DB in which there is no FULL Backup on the system.

    There was a full backup done sometime in the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Single Column Indexes

    websites2 (6/29/2009)


    Am I right in thinking that 5 indexes with 4 columns covering popular queries is better than 10 indexes each on a single column?

    In general, yes. The majority of...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: printing 1 to 100 in SQL Server as a batch....

    Paul White (6/29/2009)


    The usual construction I see has master.sys.columns cross joined to itself. Of course that will not work for anyone with only 9 rows...

    I didn't cross join because...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Transaction Log is reseted

    Kingsleen Solomon Doss (6/29/2009)


    sorry we are shrinking database

    There's your answer then. A shrink database will shrink the log.

    Why are you shrinking your database though? Databases tend 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: Irregular Size of Differential Backup File

    If you've never taken a full backup, you cannot take a diff backup. It will fail.

    The size of a diff backup depends on the amount of data that's changed since...

    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: Transaction Log is reseted

    Kingsleen Solomon Doss (6/29/2009)


    Thank you Shaw, We kept autoshrink as false and we do not manually autoshrink anywhere else.

    If your log file is decreasing in size, you have a shrink...

    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: Why do I have to register again to see articles?

    Not that I've seen, but the first article is always local, the second is sometimes and then the ones below are from other sites. I just check the source and...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Error while creating covering-index (Msg: 170)

    Add the columns in the index key. Not possible if there's lots or if they're of a type that can't be included.

    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: Transaction Log is reseted

    Either you have a maintenance plan option that's doing a shrink or you have autoshrink on or there's a manual shrink job somewhere.

    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: Data Consistency Error

    You will not be able to see the corrupted pages even with DBCC Page. They're damaged, SQL won't read them. Besides, from looking at the errors, it looks like 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: index rebuild and recovery plan.

    Switch it to bulk-logged. If you switch to simple you'll be breaking the log chain and will need to do a full backup after switching back to full.

    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: Disaster Recovery - An Afterthought?

    Disaster recovery? What's that?

    I'm almost ready to stop asking if people have backups when they post corruption questions. It's a waste of time.

    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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