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  • RE: Basic Optimum Performance setup

    Doesn't look like a great config. How heavy's the SQL load going to be?

    SQL doesn't work well with hyperthreading. SQL 2005 and 2008 are far better than 2000 was, but...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Improve SQL Query Performance

    Without seeing the query, the table definition and the indexes (and preferably the execution plan, as a .sqlplan file), it's hard to offer any useful advice.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: New Servers with lots of options - looking for success & horror stories!

    Raid 5 is not the best of ideas for transaction logs. Logs are write-heavy and raid 5 has the slowest write performance of any of the common raid levels.

    If...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: DDL Change Capture Trigger

    Just the admin DB. Unless there's a need to keep the proc in master?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Which is better

    You can't explicitly use the semi-joins. They're used by SQL when it processes an IN or an EXISTS. Both of those require that the contents be checked, but not joined,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Query not returning records for today

    rhubbard (12/4/2008)


    Hello,

    This Meeting reservation would start on the 18th and end the 19th. The user reserved the room from 2008-02-18 17:00:00.000 until 2008-02-19 01:00:00.000.

    So you want it to appear on...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Deadlock occured?

    From the deadlock graph, you can see it occurred in the database with an id of 9 (that's why 9 was the first parameter to DBCC Page - DBCC PAGE(Database...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Query not returning records for today

    Meeting start date today, or meeting end date today?

    Would this one fall into 18th feb or 19th feb?

    Liz Thomfohrde MS Offsite (TENTATIVE),Board Room,2008-02-18 17:00:00.000,2008-02-19 01:00:00.000

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DDL Change Capture Trigger

    Create a login for this purpose and give it rights on the objects needed. You can give it a very long, complex password, since it's not intended to ever be...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: DDL Change Capture Trigger

    Use EXECUTE AS on the DDL trigger so that the trigger executes under the context of a login that has access to the admin DB and all objects involved. That...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Trigger and data type

    nazaninahmady_sh (12/4/2008)


    Thank you very much,

    would you please help me to write a T_SQL block for transfering data from one table in one data base to another table in another data...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: ntext to nvarchr(max)

    Please don't create new threads for existing problems. There have been lots of answers to your questions on the other thread you started on this.

    Please continue discussion on the following...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Deadlock occured?

    Take a look at line 123 of the procedure abc_Activity_Inquire. There's an insert statement there that's one half of the deadlock.

    The other half is a piece of dynamic sQL somewhere...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: varchar versus nvarchar

    declare @test VARCHAR(20)

    SET @test = 'resumé'

    select @test

    There's a difference between extended ASCII and unicode.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: I am getting the below error.

    Sanaullah (12/3/2008)


    The SQL Server has been optimized for 8 concurrent query. This Limit has been exceededby 1 query and performance might be adversely affected.

    You've got MSDE there. (free, restricted version...

    Gail Shaw
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