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  • RE: Turn off Transaction Logs for specific tables?

    What you could try is to put the tables that you don't care about into a different database and set it to simple recovery. Doesn't stop logging, but tran log...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: ALTER TABLE while in use ?

    homebrew01 (5/26/2009)


    Would adding a new field at the end of a table cause locking ?

    Yes. Adding a column will take a schema modification lock, which is incompatible with...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Full disk

    now make sure that you set up a job to run regular log backups. Otherwise this is just going to happen again.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Can't reattach database

    Operating system error 5 is "Access denied"

    Check the folder and the log file, make sure that the SQL Service account has full permissions on the file.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (5/26/2009)


    Hey, How are you all getting on to the site? The only page that works for me is this. Rest of them gives me a zonal error. 🙁

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic723332-433-1.aspx

    Someone...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: What Level of Normalization Would This Be?

    Is it first normal form?

    The requirement for being first normal forum is that there are no repeating groups. If we take the addresses as repeating groups, then this isn't even...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: What Level of Normalization Would This Be?

    I guess my first question here would be whether you'll need all the addresses every time that you query the users table, or will you need them only a small...

    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: URGENT PROD issue - Database 'xyzStaging' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server errorlog for details.

    george sibbald (5/26/2009)


    worth a ping to steve, thanks a lot Gail

    seems a bit fishy to me (and you can spell that with a ph too)

    Turns out to be a bit...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Stored Procedures

    da.drew (5/26/2009)


    I was informed that by selecting the DB it would go to the right one, clearly not true!

    Definitely not true.

    The DB selected in object explorer is not related...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Order By Problem-Help

    select MyColumn

    from MyTable

    order by REPLACE(MyColumn,'(','')

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Reading an Execution Plan for Index Suggestions

    Lowell (5/26/2009)


    TWill changing my clustered index to include those columns, instead of the exisitng identity() column, assist the query performance wise?

    A clustered index has the data page at it's...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Reading an Execution Plan for Index Suggestions

    There's no predicate (filter) on that scan, so alone there's no way to see what index would be useful there. The cluster is being scanned and the entire thing returned....

    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: URGENT PROD issue - Database 'xyzStaging' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server errorlog for details.

    george sibbald (5/26/2009)


    excuse me posting this here, but this currently appears to be my only route into SSC.I am getting routed to another page saying 'zoneEdit DNs services for this...

    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: Update statistics on a large table

    kladibeeto (5/25/2009)


    I am using sql server 2000.

    Please post SQL 2000-related questions in the SQL 2000 forums in the future. If you post in the 2005 forums, you're very likely to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Server Min & Max Memory Settings

    Leo (5/26/2009)


    Is that better to change it up to 16GB for Max Memory?

    Absolutely not. If you do that, SQL will try and take all 16 GB and it may...

    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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