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  • RE: Are there issues with ONLINE INDEX REBUILD

    viveks.dba (5/11/2009)


    However, it is the best practice to do it offline to avoid locks on the tables incurred during index rebuild.

    You sure about that?

    An offline index rebuild takes locks on...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQLRAP

    madhu (5/11/2009)


    How n where can we get this SQLRAP tool.

    It's not a tool. It's a service offered by Microsoft's Premier Support people. I don't know if you can get an...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DB Availability

    What do you mean by 'availability'? Precisely what are you looking for?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQLRAP

    Ask to be involved in the data capture for it. You probably would be anyway.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: sUGGESTION pLEASE

    It won't cause problems, but it's unnecessary. If the indexes are identical in columns then they are redundant and you're paying the cost for updating both while getting the benefits...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Checking Up on Developers

    Manie Verster (5/11/2009)


    No, you're right, I just get the feeling that developers are getting slaughtered over here. I see blood all over the place and people seem to forget that...

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

    RBarryYoung (5/10/2009)


    why the heck did they fix it in for 2005 after it was broken in 2000?

    Because people use it. It wasn't intended to be used for concatenating a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are there issues with ONLINE INDEX REBUILD

    Not something I've ever heard of, not something I can find any reference to on google.

    Ask him if, next time it happens, he can check a few things:

    log_reuse_wait_descr in sys.databases

    DBCC...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How did you gain your expirience?

    winston Smith (5/10/2009)


    Apologies if its a question you find too personal to answer on a public forum, but what is your occupation?

    Database consultant specialising in performance tuning, SQL development...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How did you gain your expirience?

    The portion of the article that I was mostly referring to was the last paragraph.

    If you’re a developer or Windows admin, try to get promoted internally rather than switching companies....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How did you gain your expirience?

    http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/04/how-to-get-a-junior-dba-job-part-1/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Very weird query performance

    Please post udf and the exec plans (from both the VM and the prod box), as well as table defs and index defs.

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

    Paul White (5/10/2009)


    GilaMonster (5/10/2009)


    You are correct in that conclusion.

    Can you provide anything authoritative to support that?

    I am intrigued.

    Itzik Ben-Gan mentioned it during his precon at PASS last year. He also...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Performing backup but DBCC errors

    Swayambhu narayan Samamtroy (5/10/2009)


    Run DBCC Checkdb and post what is the message you are getting

    He already has. See the third post in this thread.

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  • RE: Mdf ,Ldf

    The mdf file contains the data, the metadata, any indexes. The ldf file is the transaction log, a list of changes to data pages.

    Have a read through this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179316.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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