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  • RE: DELETE ... FROM ... JOIN (explanation needed)

    mrlucmorin (5/12/2009)


    I'm just stating to think in terms of result set instead of thinking in terms of sequential programming (cursors) for my triggers.

    <applause>

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

    Alvin Ramard (5/12/2009)


    You can sing that at our next meeting, next week.

    Record it. Please?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Need help--very urgent..

    So single disks? No RAID array?

    What is an important production database doing on single disks?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database Snapshots

    Snapshots don't capture modifications. They show the database as it was at the time the snapshot was created. So, in your scenario, if you query snapshot 1, it will show...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database Snapshots

    Just bear in mind that snapshots aren't free. Having lots of them could slow down inserts, updates and deletes.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Need help--very urgent..

    Jonathan Kehayias (5/12/2009)


    Out of curiousity, how many disks are in the RAID Array that this database sits on and what RAID level is the array configured for?

    Also, is it direct...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Shrinking of log file not working even after backup

    What does DBCC OPENTRAN return?

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  • RE: shrinking logfile in SQL 2008

    mark (5/12/2009)


    Gail and Jeffery, In understand and agree with much of what you have to say. Regarding frequent backups of the log file, this really does not make a...

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  • RE: Shrinking of log file not working even after backup

    What's the value of log_reuse_wait_descr in sys.databases for this database?

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  • RE: Frequently Database goes suspect mode!

    Have you checked for hardware-related errors in the system event logs, RAID controller logs, etc?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Need help--very urgent..

    David Benoit (5/12/2009)


    Just a thought too, but while the DBCC continues you might want to start looking at backups and ensuring that you have one available and ready to go...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: shrinking logfile in SQL 2008

    mark (5/12/2009)


    Also, I don't think that your log file should exceed your database size, which will inevitably happen if you leave it alone.

    Log file should never get that...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Log shipping Transaction

    Steve Jones - Editor (5/12/2009)


    Do all your restores using the NORECOVERY option, and then you can use an ALTER DATABASE to bring the database online. The reason is that if...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Log shipping Transaction

    tosscrosby (5/12/2009)


    Hey, watch your language!

    I suspect that was nothing more than a mistype. "Tell me the procedure how to restore a DB"

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Need help--very urgent..

    RPSql (5/12/2009)


    It is running since 20 hours....Any idea why it is taking so long and why it is not completed yet?

    Maybe because there is corruption.

    The checkDB algorithms are written in...

    Gail Shaw
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