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  • RE: SQL Data and Log Files

    ScottPletcher (12/3/2008)


    I prefer to say that the log should not be truncated at all.

    That's not practical in this type of situation.

    If the log is already bloated because it previously wasn't...

    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: Severe Error

    Are the two files that SQL's looking for there?

    And the error log after SQL restarted?

    Are there any IO-related errors in the windows event 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: Minatanace plan for backup

    Can you check the versions that I asked about above?

    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: Severe Error

    And the error log from after the restart? When the DB went into recovery?

    Does the G drive still exist? Can you see it, can you read files on it?

    SQL's looking...

    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: Missing Statistics IO y Time

    Do you have showplan_all or showplan_text on?

    That option means the query won't get executed, just parsed and optimised. The query's not actually running, so there's no stats output.

    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: Severe Error

    Mike Levan (12/3/2008)


    I am not sure all of a sudden y this error occured.

    You've got disk problems.

    I can not see the error log as i just restarted.

    It's a text file...

    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: Severe Error

    Can you please post the contents of your error log? (it's a file just called errorlog, text file)

    An 823 error is a hard IO error. It means SQL requested an...

    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: Minatanace plan for backup

    Can you do a maint plan to backup to disk (not to a backup device)?

    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: Missing Statistics IO y Time

    Did you turn statistics io on?

    Are there rows in both of those tables?

    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: Minatanace plan for backup

    Please run SELECT @@version on the server and post the results. Please go to the help menu in management studio, select About Management studio and copy the version listed 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: Any sql-db-related objects updated?

    umanpowered (12/3/2008)


    If I'm understanding SQL 2005 DBMS correctly, the DBMS "engine" has some impact on the the underlying system tables. Maybe I'm way off base here, so I apologize...

    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: The Fear of Change

    It's an ebook and Simple Talk was distributing it. Drop a PM/mail to Tony Davis (here or over at simple talk) and ask.

    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: auto locking

    What's a form id?

    Your questions aren't making much sense by themselves. Can you please explain, in detail, what you're trying to do and what's not working?

    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: Round up to nearest half dollar

    Jack Corbett (12/3/2008)


    Use Gail's solution. Mine didn't handle values with .00 correctly.

    Mine had that problem too, before I remembered about Ceiling.

    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 2005-64 bit

    smunson (12/3/2008)


    I'm talking about ALL the service accounts that can be assigned during the installation process. I'd like to follow best practices for a server environment, despite...

    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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