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  • RE: Certification doubts

    trackingraj (2/5/2009)


    1. I found in the book, the CD of this training kit is available. Where can I download this CD freely ? - please mail me trackingraj@gmail.

    No portion of...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: MCITP change - no recertification needed

    trackingraj (2/5/2009)


    Based on your message, I came to know that the ceritication will expire soon ?

    It'll never expire.

    MS thought about the expiry, but didn't implement it. Your cert will be...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Correct way to truncate transaction log

    nilmov (2/5/2009)


    Changing the recovery model to simple and bring to full will help

    But will break the log chain with all attendant risks and concerns.

    and its better than truncate_only as...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: compilation error

    rudy komacsar (2/5/2009)


    It workd on SQL 2000 ...

    Thanks for the test.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Lock table

    It did wait until the lock was released.

    A shared lock is released as soon as the select has finished (in the default isolation level). You either need to do a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Lock table

    psangeetha (2/5/2009)


    I'm hoping the lock to the child table in exclusive mode will solve this problem, for testing.

    No, it won't. If there's a foreign key in place and...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: UNION and UNION ALL

    Christopher Stobbs (2/5/2009)


    Now I've drawn up some tests to read some execution plans for unions.

    And I don't really see anything that looks very costly?

    See a hash aggregate or a sort?

    Union...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Correct way to truncate transaction log

    Ahmad Osama (2/5/2009)


    GilaMonster (2/4/2009)


    Why do you want to truncate and/or shrink your transaction log?

    I have a job to rebuild indexes..this increases the transaction log size....so i want to truncate...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: A Simple T-SQL question Regarding Nulls and Selects

    meichner (2/4/2009)


    that in essence the where class does not get run and that all rows are selected from the table (which is what I want when no status is supplied...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Correct way to truncate transaction log

    Ahmad Osama (2/4/2009)


    in those cases I hv used dbcc shrinklog to truncate log.....

    Shrink file will never truncate the log. It shrinks the file. Truncate refers to discarding old log records...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Correct way to truncate transaction log

    Why do you want to truncate and/or shrink your transaction log?

    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: Log backup stopped working!!

    Have the DBs perhaps been changed to simple recovery?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Injection

    NotManyPoints (2/4/2009)


    I have not said a DBA should know everything (to the point of being proficient in every aspect) about SQL, but have an 'awareness'. :w00t:

    So do you have an...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Injection

    Lynn Pettis (2/4/2009)


    Well, guess I should not be a DBA then, as the only knowledge I have about SQLCLR is that it is there.

    Likewise, same with log shipping,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Difference between varchar(max) and varchar(8000)

    charlesz (2/4/2009)


    I do not want to get to the details about our product.

    Then why did you post info about it in your first post on this thread?

    Gail Shaw
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