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  • RE: Looking Forward

    Domagoj Orec (12/27/2008)


    My goals would be:

    1. Close my buisness and leave this God forbidden country (Croatia)

    2. Find a good job somewhere like Australia, UK or Canada 😀

    Why don't you come...

    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: DBCC is "old technology"???

    Well, DBCC certainly is old. Some of the commands have been around since SQL 6, but then that's true for a select statement too.

    Many of the DBCC statements are deprecated...

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (12/27/2008)


    BWAAA-HAAA! Excellent candidate for this year's SQL Darwin award...

    He's a repeat offender who just doesn't seem to get it. I have several unpleasant memories of that guy's...

    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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  • RE: SQL 2005 write performance

    leonp (12/27/2008)


    Also, you mentioned single row inserts .... was that based on the logs or profiler output I shared ... I thought the app was running transactions spanning 10,000 row-inserts....

    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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  • RE: SQL 2005 write performance

    leonp (12/27/2008)


    when I run bulk inserts from the flat file into the SQL server, (which is ~thrice the total volume read), 35 million rows (18G) are loaded in server...

    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: SQl server certification

    Lots more. See - http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certifications.mspx

    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: Restore could not start DB.

    Reindexing is not going to fix this. There's corruption in the data pages (index id 0). If it was only in the nonclustered indexes (index id 2 and higher) then...

    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: Error->Restore Master Database

    jananik (12/27/2008)


    But I think I had taken the backup in a single destination only.

    Did you backup using the management studio gui? If there were two files listed in the...

    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: Transaction Log Size

    I posted a link to a doc about tran log management earlier in the thread.

    GilaMonster (12/22/2008)


    Take a read through this - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/64582/

    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: SQL 2005 write performance

    You're pulling the entire of two tables, amounting to a total of 15 million rows. That's never going to be quick and there's no way indexes are going to help...

    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: ssis and ssrs interview questions

    GilaMonster (12/23/2008)


    Have you looked through Books Online, specifically the sections on SSIS?

    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: Recovering a Failed Standby Server

    Paresh Prajapati (12/26/2008)


    Take transaction log backup of database and apply on that server with recovery.

    How's that going to help with creating a second copy of an in-recovery database without breaking...

    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: Encrypted data in table

    Pavas Malviya (12/26/2008)


    c++ is bad. But good at c#

    But you can't write extended procs (as far as I know) in C#.

    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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  • RE: SQL 2005 write performance

    leonp (12/24/2008)


    We have perfmon running for 3 hours; thrice a day. Sampling once every 75 seconds. Is that a bad thing?

    Not perfmon. Profiler.

    Select * for the reader (which the...

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Michael Earl (12/24/2008)


    At least they were able to open Management Studio and run the query.

    Well there was this one guy (who claimed to be a performance tuning guru and have...

    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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