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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (2/25/2009)


    Just out of curiousity, how many of you see this forum's ultimate objective to be giving people fish, or teaching them to fish?

    Teaching, but you can't teach someone...

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  • RE: Perfmon

    sudhakara (2/25/2009)


    How do you exactly calculate the average disk queue in performon ?

    If you have a SAN, don't bother. That counter's near impossible to interpret properly when the storage...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: optimization help

    Since it's 2000, to get the exec plan, run the query with the statement SET STATISTICS PROFILE ON above it.

    There will be a second resultset. Copy that, paste in excel,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: New views do not come across in backup

    steve smith (2/25/2009)


    My bad. It's a replication from the 'production' server to a 'reports' server, published twice a day. Which I believe means that the term 'snapshot replication'...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: New views do not come across in backup

    steve smith (2/25/2009)


    Sorry all. This is the first time that I've experimented with using font sizing. Does '2' work better? [pls reply only if you need larger]

    How...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Threading?Spin off a command within a SP?

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/25/2009)


    Job - granularity is only every minute, so be aware there.

    The job doesn't have to be scheduled. I did something like this with replication where the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Production security for developers - 'emergency' updates

    What kind of system is this? What data are you storing?

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

    Lynn Pettis (2/25/2009)


    What is "best practices" actually? What is "best" today may not be "best" a week, or month, or year from now.

    Which is one of the reasons I...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SP Optimization

    Also Inside SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimisation which, as it's name implies, is an entire book on query tuning and optimisation.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: spid blocked itself

    It's perfectly normal with 2000 SP4. It happened in earlier versions, but wasn't reported.

    If a query runs parallel and some of the threads are slower than others, the ones that...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: DBCC OPENTRAN not showing my open transaction

    DBA (2/25/2009)


    should'nt the DBCC OPENTRAN return

    this open transaction?

    What DB are you running it in? What DB's the transaction in?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: New views do not come across in backup

    steve smith (2/25/2009)


    Snapshot processes will not pick up new views.

    Depends what you mean by snapshot.

    Full database backups, at least for SS 2005, will backup the full...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Threading?Spin off a command within a SP?

    I'd go for job or service broker.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Automation Solution for Deadlock

    srisagar_p (2/24/2009)


    so deadlock occurrence is also high for me. Every time time i need to kill if a deadlock occurs through Kill command

    Are you talking about blocking or deadlocks?...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Non Clustered Index Creation

    What's the blocking resource?

    Can you show some of the code?

    Gail Shaw
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