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  • RE: Express 2008 - will it run under Win2K Advanced Server?

    No version of SQL 2008 will run on Windows 2000. Below are the supported OS's for 2008 Express

    Windows XP SP2 Home, Professional, Tablet, Media Center

    Windows Server 2003 Small Business 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: Creating Index(es) in Large Table to Speed Query Processing

    Bottom line, a good index is one that queries use.

    Take a look at the queries that run against that table. Look at what's in the where clause, what the join...

    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: Dynamic caolumn Calculations

    Could you please explain a bit more what you're trying to do? I don't understand the question.

    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: index issue

    (Repeating post from http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost609293.aspx)

    Run all queries that affect that table with the execution plan option enabled. See which indexes they are using. Remove any that aren't used by any query....

    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: disable index

    Thread continues here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic609292-5-1.aspx

    In the interests of keeping things together, no more replies to this thread please.

    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: disable index

    I'm not familiar with SQL 7. In SQL 2000's query analyser there was a button on the toolbar. If it's not ther, try SET SHOWPLAN_ALL ON, though that's a lot...

    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: disable index

    Run all queries that affect that table with the execution plan option enabled. See which indexes they are using. Remove any that aren't used by any query. make sure 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (11/26/2008)


    Heh... check out ths clown...

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic607292-1424-2.aspx#608466

    I'm not touching that with a 10 foot barge pole.

    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: Memory Paged out every 30-40 mins with Memory Utilization around 50% (and 13GB available RAM)

    Just heard back and that does look like a driver issue. The Broadcom is known to give issues, no ideas about the others. MS won't write articles about other people'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

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  • RE: setting isolation level read uncommited

    Optimise the queries so that the run as fast as possible and can use the indexes that you create.

    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: disable index

    Prior to SQL 2005, the only way is to drop the index.

    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 server 2005 security

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic608988-359-1.aspx

    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

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic608988-359-1.aspx

    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: How NOT to use parameters to avoid SQL injection

    <Sigh>

    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: Server is sluggish

    You can generate a trace script from profiler. All you'll need to do with the script is set an end time and a file name. Script to a fast drive...

    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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