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  • RE: database backups fail with BackupIoRequest::WaitForIoCompletion: read failure on backup device

    llokshin (1/26/2009)


    But when our IT ran chckdisk on it it repported 0 errors.

    Still, if it's giving errors there's a problem. You don't want to find the problem when the drive...

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

    Jeff Moden (1/26/2009)


    The backup to such a "break" for the quirky update method is that the ORDER BY method also works although it works at about half the speed. ...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Newbie:Why is select doing a table scan?

    Ed (1/26/2009)


    Does it matter which column is defined in the clustered index?

    Yes! Very much so. A bad choice of a cluster can do terrible things to performance. Uniqueindentifier...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: database backups fail with BackupIoRequest::WaitForIoCompletion: read failure on backup device

    That looks like problems with the IO subsystem. Possibly intermittent right now.

    Check the windows event log for anything indicating hardware problems, check the SQL error log, check any logs from...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Weekly DB Maintenance - DBREINDEX

    Cricketdogger (1/21/2009)


    Then I turned on auto-shrink overnight and was very happy to see that this morning the database was only 56 gb (down from 128 gb). I will re-index...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Finding out UnUsed/sleeping indexes by srihari nandamuri

    srihari nandamuri (1/26/2009)


    Take corrective action

    What kind of corrective action are you proposing?

    Dropping indexes that haven't been used since the last server start is not recommended, unless you're very...

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

    P Jones (1/26/2009)


    I also get hot under the collar about bad spelling and grammar - I had a traditional English grammar school education

    Just bear in mind that not everyone...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Backup transaction log file

    Has your job been doing full backups, or transaction log backups? In full recovery, you need both.

    Please read through this - Managing Transaction Logs[/url]

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

    Steve Jones - Editor (1/25/2009)


    Personally I dislike labeling things bad and good, especially with code since it's a question of where and when things make sense.

    If you've read my blog...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Maximum index size?

    David.Poole (1/26/2009)


    I've heard that if an index grows beyond a certain point SQL Server is unable to use it.

    May I ask where you heard that from?

    As far as I know,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Newbie:Why is select doing a table scan?

    Ed (1/26/2009)


    IX_sysValidationList is a unique, non-clustered index on the column, ValidationPartyID. Is this index not appropriate for these joins?

    Apparently not. Probably because it's not covering. I haven't looked at...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Database Size

    So the database size is 72GB, the unallocated space is 3GB

    Then the reserved size is 69 GB, the data is 31 GB, the indexes are 38 GB and the unused...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Newbie:Why is select doing a table scan?

    Looks fine. I'll take a detailed look later.

    One thing I can tell you straight off, there's no clustered index on the table that you're repeatedly joining to, and no useful...

    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: Relying on tuning advisor for indexing

    thulani.moyana (1/25/2009)


    I would like to find out if one can rely on the tuning advisor and implement all of its recommendations?

    No.

    The DTA does an OK job. Not great, but...

    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: recompilation of #tables

    Please post in the appropriate forum in the future.

    Temp tables are treated the same way (almost) as permanent tables. So creation of a temp table will force a proc to...

    Gail Shaw
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