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  • RE: NonClusered Index Rebuild

    ssismaddy (2/23/2009)


    @Gila : The index pages are around 70MB in size.

    How many pages does the index you're trying to rebuild have?

    Query sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats for the specific index that you're rebuilding.

    What's...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)


    I'm a sucker for Arthur too, but man... that book.

    I don't know what it was about it. One of my friends loved it to bits.

    Maybe the blatant feminism....

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

    Bruce W Cassidy (2/23/2009)


    After Mary Stewart (brilliant), I find most Atrhurian myth disappointing.

    I will look her books up.

    But on the note of dissapointing movies from books and Arthurian myth,...

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

    Bob Hovious (2/23/2009)


    So.... The Illuminatus! Trilogy?

    Author?

    Worth reading?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)


    I tried three times to read Mists of Avalon. I got a few pages further each time before flinging the book across the room.

    I got about half way...

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

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/23/2009)


    Gail, I smell a business opportunity in SA...

    Not with the bandwidth the way it is. What I have is towards the top end of what's available...

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

    GSquared (2/23/2009)


    I'd go with renting, if that's an option for you.

    I haven't seen it in any of the local video stores. I'll check around when I have a...

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

    Bob Hovious (2/23/2009)


    With BattleStar Galactica going going gone.

    Is Galactica worth buying on DVD? (for a Startrek, Starwars, Babylon 5 fan)

    It never showed on any of the local stations here...

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

    Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)


    GilaMonster (2/23/2009)


    One series I'm really enjoying at the moment (not Sci-Fi) is the "Dresden files" by Jim Butcher. It's about a modern-day wizard living in Chicago. Butcher's other...

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

    GSquared (2/23/2009)


    Yep. And I never could get through book 10, never even tried with 11 or 12. Don't even care if there's going to be more after that.

    You...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: NonClusered Index Rebuild

    mazzz (2/23/2009)


    As far as I understand it from answers I got to a similar post I made myself the other day, you can't defragment unless you have a clustered index...

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

    GSquared (2/23/2009)


    In recent fantasy, I really liked the Wheel of Time series, for about 3 books. Then it just got more and more boring as it went along. ...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Is it possible?

    Once the trace has finished, you can then import it into a table using fn_trace_gettable

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Backup failure

    How are you backing up? SQL native backup?

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

    One series I'm really enjoying at the moment (not Sci-Fi) is the "Dresden files" by Jim Butcher. It's about a modern-day wizard living in Chicago. Butcher's other series "Codex Alarea"...

    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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