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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (1/28/2009)


    ARRRRGGGGGG!!!

    And the man keeps running even further into the desert.....

    Why, oh why are you still helping him?

    Gail Shaw
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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (1/28/2009)[hr "whether its transaction log backups, and XML indexes or whizbang fiber-optic laser beam assemblers." that were copied word for word, and these aren't phrases you...

    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 file size large with replication

    Basically what happened there is that you had transactional replication set up (somehow), but the log reader wasn't running and never had run. Hence tran log entries that were marked...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Urgent HELP ME¡¡¡¡¡¡ Some one

    clperez271172 (1/28/2009)


    select sj.name, dts.name, command,sj.date_modified,sjd.last_run_date

    from msdb..sysjobs sj

    join msdb..sysjobsteps sjs on sj.job_id = sjs.job_id

    join msdb..sysjobservers sjd on sjs.job_id =sjd.job_id

    LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb..sysdtspackages dts on sjs.command LIKE '%'+cast(id as varchar(100))+'%'

    where command like...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: stored procedure bias

    One difference is in the reusability of the plans.

    With ad-hoc sql, the text has to match precisely (including whitespace) before an existing plan will be reused. The following two generate...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Using EXECUTE (@sqlvar) in function

    smeet.sinha (1/28/2009)


    Don't u think that would be great if Microsoft would have considered this.

    What are the underlying issues with the MS SQL architecture i dont know. But that would be...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Help understanding adhoc plans and procedure cache

    DBADave (1/28/2009)


    If I understand plan cache (and I still may be missing some things), the formulas above pertain to how SQL Server determines at what level plan cache will be...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Need help with this

    Smartdog (1/28/2009)


    although ur solution may be working in this case, but it will not be working when passing 7 parameters as i want to do,

    If you'd said in your...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: sql server indexing?

    kiman_keren (1/28/2009)


    question number 3: i got this one

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190962.aspx

    That link's got nothing to do with index algorithms. It's talking about how the execution plan shows a clustered index seek.

    Try these two:

    Clustered...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Encryption

    If the ALLSTAFF is not encrypted and the ALLSTAFF_dec is encrypted, then you need to be using the EncryptByKey function when you insert from AllStaff to AllStaff_Dec. You're trying to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Help understanding adhoc plans and procedure cache

    Well, you can tell your vendor friend that, far from the 28-32 GB that he says the proc cache is using, it's actually using only 4.6 and most of 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: remove logging information

    nabajyoti.b (1/28/2009)


    How do i find that it is in full recovery mode?

    How do i change the recovery model to simple or take a transaction log backup?

    Is there a DBA there?...

    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: Can't create a function

    Think you could maybe post the code that you're running? Without that I can't begin to guess why you're getting a syntax error.

    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: Earning Credit

    Domagoj Orec (1/28/2009)


    Ok, maybe not, but it is kinda weird.

    Nah. Some people join to post on the forums (and hence gain points), many join just to read (and maybe submit)...

    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: Need help with this

    I would strongly suggest, if this is for a procedure, call sub-procedures instead of hving all the possible selects in the one procedure. There's a big parameter sniffing problem if...

    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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