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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luke L (5/15/2009)


    We will walk in dark places no others will enter??

    If you're talking about my sig, it's part of the Ranger oath from Babylon 5. Considering the really questionable...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gaby Abed (5/15/2009)


    Weren't the capitals split to separate the three branches?

    They are, with Cape Town and Bloemfontein the other two, but if one speaks about the capital city of the...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (5/15/2009)


    So... that means you commute from Thailand to SA every day on the back of an elephant?? That must be rough. 🙂

    Hehehe. With times and distances it would...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (5/15/2009)


    Actually, that looks more like an Asian elephant to me than an African one, judging by the ears. Possibly a female Asian elephant, judging by the lack of...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (5/15/2009)


    Gail: Check out the second story on this page[/url]. You'll get a chuckle out of it.

    Hehe. That's not an uncommon comment. I showed someone a photo of...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Allocation and Consistency Errors + DBCC CheckDB

    I'm not going to try and explain all the errors, but it looks like at least 3 extents (at different places in the file) have been trashed. This is usually...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (5/15/2009)


    GSquared (5/15/2009)


    I'm here (most of the time).

    DUDE! I've visited that place before. How cool is that?

    And the continent visible is where I live, or more specifically, here

    Not great...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: SQL Performance disagreement

    BigSam (5/15/2009)


    The current database design has Simple recovery model

    Isn't that a risk? If anything fails, you'll be losing everything back to the last full/diff backup.

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: What solution for 30 million users

    I asked a few questions earlier that haven't been answered.

    There's no where near enough info to tell you anything useful. Furthermore, this isn't the kind of thing that 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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Repair Database

    Shukla (5/15/2009)


    That continously users will be working on my application so as and when database gets corrupted i should be able to repair it immediately.

    Users don't cause database corruption. 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

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

    Jan Van der Eecken (5/15/2009)


    But ever since we have the two dogs it has been calm.

    I live in a block of flats, so dogs aren't an option

    Anyhow Gail, I can...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: What should I do when my database gets corrupted...?

    Take a look at this article. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/65804/

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Enforce Hash Join, but not with a hint?

    Christopher Stobbs (5/15/2009)


    When you say that a Clustered index is included in every non-clustered index, what do you mean by this?

    The clustering key is the row's identifier. Hence it is...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Repair Database

    Depends what's wrong

    Please run this and post the full results:

    DBCC CHECKDB (< Database Name > ) WITH NO_INFOMSGS, ALL_ERRORMSGS

    Do you have a clean backup?

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ahhh!!!! Damn it! Twice this year!

    Flat broken into again last night. Among other things, took the zune that I bought to replace the ipod that they stole last bloody time.

    As...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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