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  • RE: Single MDF or MDF+NDF

    To follow up on Grant and Eric's comments.

    Splitting to spread out IO load and splitting to allow partial database restores require completely different decisions about what tables/indexes go onto different...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Scalar functions sudden slow down

    Nested loop joins may fetch the same row many times from the outer table, and if there are functions there they might get evaluated before the join. Also you may...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Single MDF or MDF+NDF

    Are you planning to put all the files on the same set of drives?

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

    Ed Wagner (12/14/2015)


    Someone needs to alert the silver spoon manufacturer to start running overtime immediately. I have a feeling we're a couple of cases short in stock and we're...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database monitoring tools?

    anthony.green (12/14/2015)


    What I've used in the past

    Idera, Spotlight, SQL Sentry, all are good, all did what we needed in their own way.

    and I've used

    SQL Monitor, Foglight and Spotlight. All good,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database monitoring tools?

    As Anthony said

    Its then up to you to choose which one fits the needs of your business and your requirements.

    What's best for my requirements may not be best for yours,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: mysql 4.1.22

    This is a Microsoft SQL Server forum, not MySQL. You'll probably get better MySQL help at http://forums.mysql.com/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Transaction Log Backup runs for 2 seconds does not Backup - Can't Shrink Log File

    Ok, the log reader is failing. Why? What steps have you taken to debug the log reader?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Difference between Runnable, Running, Conditional

    Never heard of conditional. The states that a process may be in are running, runnable, suspended, background (for system processes) and sleeping.

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177648.aspx

    Running means just that, the process is on the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: High Availability solution

    Custom ETL won't satisfy any of those requirements (except maybe 4). To even start, you'd probably need to write IO filter drivers, or maybe a transaction log reader, implement something...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Allocation Unit Size

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814%28v=sql.100%29.aspx

    http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/28801/sql-server-ntfs-allocation-unit-size

    Bear in mind that changing the size means repartitioning the drives, so that's a re-partition, re-format and reinstall. Downtime could be nasty.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Transaction Log Backup runs for 2 seconds does not Backup - Can't Shrink Log File

    Welsh Corgi (12/13/2015)


    When I start the Log Reader Agent it fails.

    And you've, of course, looked at the errors it logs, googled them if you don't understand immediately and hence know...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Transaction Log Backup runs for 2 seconds does not Backup - Can't Shrink Log File

    I just told you! And the error message that you posted told you as well!

    You've either got transactional replication with a log reader job that's not running or change data...

    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: Can't Shrink Transaction Log 79 GB

    Continues here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1744862-2799-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Scalar functions sudden slow down

    Yes. Remove the UDFs. They're a notorious performance problem, especially when they're data-accessing UDFs that run in a clause of a query, because they will run multiple times and, 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

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