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  • RE: Exam 70-448 question

    You do get the cert, providing you have any prerequisites. You will have to wait a while for results.

    That exam's not in beta though. It went through beta some months...

    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

    prakash.gr (11/26/2008)


    i do agree with your points. but my frontend is not critical like banking application where inconsistency effcts adversely.

    I don't know many apps where missing a bunch of rows...

    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: SELECT IN failing

    You can't use a variable in an in clause like that. The in has to either be literals or a subquery.

    Two options:

    1) Dynamic SQL with all of its downsides and...

    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: Problem creating an index

    User_name and session_user are nondeterministic functions, as are most similar security functions. They can return different results when called with the same parameters. As such, they may not be part...

    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: Cross Apply is not workign on SQL Server compatibility level 2000(80)

    Why can't you change the compatibility level?

    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: inserting record into table adds to top of table

    Tables, by definition, don't have an order. Position of rows within a table is a meaningless concept. The way the rows are stored physically on disk (which is what 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

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  • RE: Please show the certification chart of MCDBA

    5 seconds with google will get you this:

    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: problem with function

    Magy (11/26/2008)


    Gail, I'm in SQL profiler, and I ran it while executing the stored proc. Is there anything I should be looking for besides stmtCompleted? I see a...

    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)

    Yeah, that looks like the 'falling off a cliff' behaviour that Bob Ward described. I'll hunt for an article and drop him a mail if I can't find it.

    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)

    Elisabeth Rédei (11/26/2008)


    Make sure you don't have the "Lock Pages in Memory" user right set for the SQL Server startup account.

    Standard edition ignores that setting.

    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)

    I'm not asking about SQL's working set. The message says that's getting reduced. I asked about the total working set of all processes on the server. If that's showing a...

    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: Poorly executing Queries.

    MarkusB (11/25/2008)


    It will consider all queries which qan since the last time SQL Server started.

    Not quite. It will consider all queries whose execution plans are still in cache. As soon...

    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: problem with function

    Magy (11/25/2008)


    Im sorry...I'm using SQL Server 2000...what is sp_stmtcompleted?

    It's a profiler event. Under the Stored Procedures group. It traces each statement within a proc. It can get intensive so make...

    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: Can we take Tail log backup in sql server 2000?

    kotlas7 (11/25/2008)


    can we put the database in recovery mode after taking the tail backup in sql server 2000?

    Sure. Add the NoRecovery option to the log backup statement along with no_truncate.

    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: Unable to Restore Database

    I don't understand exactly what you're saying.

    If you have space constraints, get more space. Repeatedly shrinking the dataabse and log (and having them grow again) will cause index fragmentation, internal...

    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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