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  • RE: LogShipping Setup question

    A requirement of a relational database system is that a user of the database does not need to know anything about where or how the data is stored. This extends...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Why Use the Principle of Least Privilege?

    Gary Varga (1/19/2016)


    I agree with your sentiments here but that is not the appropriate way to call a stored procedure from .NET.

    No kidding, since I posted it as a bad...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (1/19/2016)


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    GilaMonster (1/19/2016)


    Talking about dressing up a CV, the last time I used an agency (well over 10 years ago), they sent me to an interview. At...

    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: Quick question on cpu counter in extended events

    Parallelism.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Why Use the Principle of Least Privilege?

    roger.plowman (1/19/2016)


    Stored procedures (and no dynamic SQL in them) are the way to go

    No, they're not necessary. Parametrising calls is necessary. That's all.

    If the app developer doesn't know what they're...

    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?

    BL0B_EATER (1/19/2016)


    GilaMonster (1/19/2016)


    Talking about dressing up a CV, the last time I used an agency (well over 10 years ago), they sent me to an interview. At the time I...

    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: How to check what is current LSN of DB?

    If RESTORE DATABASE <db name> WITH RECOVERY doesn't work, then it's probably not in a state where you can restore log backups. It's possible someone accidentally restored over it and...

    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?

    Talking about dressing up a CV, the last time I used an agency (well over 10 years ago), they sent me to an interview. At the time I was 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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    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yup, that's an interviewer who's just failed the interview (remember it's a 2-way street, you're evaluating them as much as they're evaluating 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    About 4 months ago, I got an SMS from a recruiter which said (paraphrased)

    "I saw your profile on LinkedIn. One of my clents(sic) is looking for Developers with C# skills....

    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: Any way to find which procedures are causing serializable lock mode?

    Grant Fritchey (1/19/2016)


    I'd probably go with the extended events session.

    Thirded. I'm starting to love XEs (late to the party, I know).

    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: AlwaysOn - Read Only Replica's

    The only queries which go to read only replicas are ones that are run on connections which were made with the ReadOnlyIntent option in the connection string. If the connection...

    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: Suddenly Cannot Drop Temporary Tables in 2008 R2

    Please note, 4 year old thread.

    Restarting a prod SQL Server to remove a temp table is a tad overkill....

    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: Find Latest Date from Multiple Columns

    You can use a CASE statement. It'll be messy, but SQL doesn't have a 'max across columns' function.

    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: Tempdb configuration best practices

    Providing TempDB's not under IO contention already.

    RAID 1 is a mirror. Two drives, each with full copy of the data. Either can fail with no loss of data. I...

    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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