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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    RBarryYoung (3/16/2009)


    Steve Jones - Editor (3/16/2009)


    The award is supposed to include lots of technical merits, but I'm not sure that the judges know what is technical and what isn't. ...

    That's...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Performance

    JacekO (3/16/2009)


    Ok, good.

    So going back to my question about Identity (INT - fixed lenght datatype) with Fill Factor of 100% - that should work fine and avoid the page...

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (3/16/2009)


    From what I've seen of some of the MVP's, there's obviously that type of thing to put up with. You also have to understand that those "grading...

    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: performence issue

    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/Topic676411-146-1.aspx

    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: Do I need to run maintenance?

    callum.bundy (3/16/2009)


    At the moment I run weekly maintenance plans (the wizard created ones in management studio) that do Database checks, re index, reorganise and shrink.

    Bad combination of tasks. The reindex...

    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: Regarding LDF file.

    swmsan (3/16/2009)


    Yes...have done that...but size doesn't reduce..It shows me the same size

    It won't. Log backups make the space within the file available for reuse. They don't decrease the file size....

    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: Failed to retrieve data from database

    Can you post the query?

    Is the database that Crystal is querying in compat mode 90?

    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: SQL Performance

    JacekO (3/16/2009)


    Gail,

    Does your answer assume the index is clustered?

    Clustered or nonclustered with variable-width key or include columns.

    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: RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally

    Bagath (3/16/2009)


    Dropped and re-created the default constraint for the table and ran the CHECKCATALOG command successfully.

    Yup, that is the way to fix schema-related errors like that. If CheckCatalog is clean,...

    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: Data Corruption Issue

    I think the best bet here is to restore that clean backup that you said you had and apply transaction log backups (if you have any of those) to get...

    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?

    Steve Jones - Editor (3/15/2009)


    I don't think I met Mangal up there.

    I suspect he wasn't there. The whole 'Answered Posts' yelling match occurred during Summit.

    Steve Jones - Editor (3/15/2009)


    Note that...

    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: Data Corruption Issue

    Double post. Nevermind.

    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: Data Corruption Issue

    I'm confused.

    murthykalyani (3/13/2009)


    Upon exeucting dbcc check table got following error

    Server: Msg 8939, Level 16, State 98, Line 1

    Table error: Object ID 0, index ID -1, partition ID 0, alloc...

    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: How do I corrupt a page in a database?

    It means that you corrupted a page that gets checked during the attach. That's why I said "if it attaches successfully". Restore a backup, detach and write over in a...

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    RBarryYoung (3/14/2009)


    OK, this is the most disturbing thing that I have read in a while. Read it closely. Brrrr...

    Hey, look on the bright side. Jonathan and Jacob got...

    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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