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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Depends if they're linking to or republishing. If they're linking, there's no plagiarism there, that would be like saying we can't link to Books Online from blogs.

    If they're reposting the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Appropriate sample sizes for UPDATE STATISTICS?

    GabyYYZ (11/9/2015)


    Okay, now that I've click-bated the MVP's, knowing full well the answer is "It Depends"

    Yup, it does. Hence you'll get n different opinions in x posts (where n >=x)

    I...

    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: What is my query currently waiting on

    Extended stored procs don't typically show useful wait info, because as soon as the extended proc starts to run, it's outside of the SQL scheduler control. You'll probably 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: Unablle to start cluster services in sql on passive node

    Is the instance running on the active node?

    What errors are shown in the SQL error 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: Ideal MAXDOP & CPUs - how to trace for parallel queries?

    Sure. Speak with your VM admin about how the physcal NUMA nodes are mapped. The later versions of VMWare handle NUMA config.

    As for cost threshold, 5 (the default) is stupidly...

    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: DY

    To be honest, I've started to use full words for the time components. I've mixed up mm and mi one too many times.

    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: DY

    Luis Cazares (11/6/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/6/2015)


    Luis Cazares (11/6/2015)


    Aren't those self explanatory? If they don't know the difference, selecting the function and pressing F1 will take them to 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: TABLE CONSTRAINT Issue

    For that you either need a unique index on a computed column (A Coalesce of the two would work in this case), or a filtered 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

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  • RE: Ideal MAXDOP & CPUs - how to trace for parallel queries?

    In general, you want something like the number of physical cores in one NUMA node, 1.5* that or 2* that. The idea is that you don't want queries paralleling across...

    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: Question for All DBAs (What can I learn to enahnce my career?)

    If you've been working with SQL Server for a few months, it's far too early to specialise. Learn the basics of your job for now. Once you can handle off...

    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: Is SQL Profiler the culprit ?

    Is that once an hour query going to affect performance for the part of the hour it's not running?

    Let's say the once an hour query runs for 5 minutes. Does...

    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: Is SQL Profiler the culprit ?

    So keep tuning resource-intensive queries until they stop complaining.

    It's often not the query with the highest reads per execution, but the one that uses the most resources in a unit...

    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: multiple files what determines where an object goes

    If an object is added with a filegroup specified, then it goes into the files in that filegroup. Probably all of the files in that filegroup. Google "proportional fill algorithm"...

    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: Alternative for len() function in where clause

    Yes, a function on a column in the where clause means SQL scans the table, but if you need to filter on the length of a column, there aren'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: Alternative for len() function in where clause

    If you want to check the length of a string and filter on that length, then LEN works fine. Why are you looking for an alternative?

    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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