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  • RE: Sharepoint databases?

    Make sure you read this one too. http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Database-Maintenance-Best-Practices-Part-I-e28093-clarifying-ambiguous-recommendations-for-Sharepoint.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: update and group by

    Jack Corbett (3/19/2009)


    If you mean something like this:

    Update table

    Set columnA = Sum(columnB)

    Group By

    columnC

    Then No.

    However, if you use the UPDATE.....

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Index not rebuilding

    Krishna (3/19/2009)


    GilaMonster (3/19/2009)


    My criteria for clustered indexes - narrow, unchanging, unique, ever-increasing.

    That's a good one Gail. Explains everything just in 4 words.:-D

    I can't take credit. Kimberly Tripp[/url]'s been preaching...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Index not rebuilding

    shnex (3/19/2009)


    So, my question was: puting the clustered index on column2(bigint) is beter than on column1(guid)?

    Maybe. Can you give us the table's actual schema and some of the more common...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Index not rebuilding

    Tim Walker (3/19/2009)


    Gail, Grant, can I ask you why you think a GUID is automatically a bad choice.

    Experience.

    I've had a table with a guid cluster that could go from...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Regarding LDF file.

    shnex (3/19/2009)


    only this way I will have acces to the log information.

    Why do you want to access the log information?

    I said that shrinking seems better because the information from the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: MCITP Training courses

    I'd recommend the self-paced training kits, you should be able to buy from Amazon.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Need input on SQL certifications

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic679161-391-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Query Help Needed

    Give this a try (no promises)

    SELECT memberID

    FROM memberResponses

    WHERE responseID IN (1,3,4,6,8,15)

    GROUP BY memberID

    ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC

    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: Best way to set 'READ UNCOMMITTED'

    Ouch. The old 'One True Table' design. I'm surprised you can get anything out of that in a reasonable time, even with nolock.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Best way to set 'READ UNCOMMITTED'

    Florian Reischl (3/18/2009)


    It's not nice, but I see no other possibility.

    a

    Optimise queries, tune indexes?

    Seriously, in most cases doing those two removed the 'need' for nolock. Or are you running...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: create/import policy on sql 2005

    dallas13 (3/18/2009)


    i have created a policy on sql 2008 now i need to apply that

    policy on sql 2005 server. is that possible?

    No. Policies are a 2008 feature.

    You can evaluate...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: ERROR EXECUTING PROCEDURE on SQLS2K

    JMSM (3/18/2009)


    I know that this is a forum where we discuss anything about SQL Server 2005 but im having a problem that appears in a stored procedure in SQL Server...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Full Transaction log

    jfoster (3/18/2009)


    For those using pre-SQL 2008 servers, this would still be in the toolbox if needed and should be used with their scope in mind.

    I'd say no, even pre-2008, either...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Slow performing select statement on large table

    Matt (3/18/2009)


    I've found the perfect tool to use on the server to help me out, it's called a sledge hammer

    😀 There's a reason I have a hammer in my computer...

    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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