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  • RE: "DBCC CHECKDB ... WITH DATA_PURITY" - Is it needed in SQL-2005-to-SQL-2008 upgrades?

    On databases created in 2005, or ones from earlier versions where the data purity check has run once successfully, that option is default and all checkDB executions (excluding ones where...

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  • RE: SQL 2008 Basic Edition - Help needed to restore a backup .abf file

    Which edition of SQL 2008 do have? There's no basic edition. There's express (free), web, workgroup, standard, enterprise and developer.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: MSDN SUBSCRIPTION

    Have a look through these:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscriptionschart.aspx - Different MSDN subscriptions

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/bb892756.aspx - Different Technet subscriptions

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/dd362338.aspx - Comparison between technet and MSDN

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Keeping an ad hoc plan in Cache - sp_executesql?- Pic attached

    Grant Fritchey (2/6/2009)


    As an aside, too many indexes will slow down inserts, but the right indexes, especially the right clustered index, will speed up insertions.

    Indeed, and by too many...

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  • RE: primary data file

    Continued here - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic651434-5-1.aspx

    No more replies to this thread please.

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  • RE: Database corrupt

    Krishna (2/6/2009)


    and finally Tail Backup with STOPAT (Recovery)

    You only need STOPAT if there are some commands in the log that you don't want to restore (for eg a user dropping...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database corrupt

    Depends how the DB crashed.

    If the log is still accessible and SQL's still running, then you back up the tail of the log (no truncate, no recovery options), and restore...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Monitoring System variable through DMV

    Those are typically monitored through Performance Monitor (The windows tool), not through SQL.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Keeping an ad hoc plan in Cache - sp_executesql?- Pic attached

    krypto69 (2/5/2009)


    I looked into using plan guides.

    Don't. Plan guides are a last resort fix for a query that's always generating a bad plan and that cannot be changed. They're...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Roll back

    You can't. If you did not start an explicit transaction, then the changes were committed as soon as the statement completed and no rollback is possible

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to determine that given trace file is active or not

    shivani.suri2 (2/5/2009)


    Need a suggestion...

    As has been mentioned several times, use the status column. That is populated even for traces running through profiler. The status will tell you if the trace...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Keeping an ad hoc plan in Cache - sp_executesql?- Pic attached

    The only time an adhoc plan will be reused is if the sql matches exactly to the one that create the plan. Exactly meaning down to the white space and...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Best practices to backup things up

    Jack Corbett (2/5/2009)


    I believe that if you reorganize or rebuild stats for that index are updated automatically.

    Rebuild, yes. Reorganise, no.

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  • RE: Size limit for SQL databases?

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/5/2009)


    The limits change at times in versions, but to date I haven't heard anyone talking about reaching the limits.

    If anyone in the world has a 500...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: question about deadlocks

    Post the deadlock graph?

    Two selects should not be able to deadlock unless there are strange locking hints used.

    Gail Shaw
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