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  • RE: strange profiler activity

    Do you have any filters on the trace? Are you sure that the app's pointing at this database?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: sqlserver 2005 Express

    saby (10/11/2008)


    Hi Gail,

    This might happen due to conflicts happens some time mainly in this subcription database ... due to which it might showing transaction still pending while truncating 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: Did you buy SQL Server for home use?

    Jerry Hung (10/10/2008)


    I don't have MSDN, debating on what to do for my home server

    Windows 2008 Trial and SQL Server 2008 Trial? hee hee

    Dunno about the OS (Windows home...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: strange profiler activity

    What do you want help with? I'm not sure I understand what's wrong.

    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: Automated Parsing of Execution Plan

    There's no tool I know of that does that. I had an idea to write something like that a year or so ago, but it never got started.

    The schema is...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: 70-445 Questions and answers

    Brandie Tarvin (10/10/2008)


    I've actually stumped people with simple backup & restore questions of all things. You'd think *that* particular subject matter would be basic to everyone's DBA knowledge.

    Oh, please... Just...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: sqlserver 2005 Express

    saby (10/10/2008)


    gail ..

    its a subcription database ..... and a live database

    we are using sqlexpress edition for subcription database

    Yes, I know. You said so before.

    The above commands will 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: Table Variables and performance

    They have uses. The main one for me is error/progress logging in procs. If all that you're doing to a table var is inserting and then selecting the entire table...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Table Variables and performance

    Grant Fritchey (10/8/2008)


    Except for a primary key, table variables have not statistics where as temp tables do. This means that they are treated as one row tables for all...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Table Variables and performance

    Michael Earl (10/8/2008)


    While it is running, look for tables in tempdb:

    SELECT * FROM TempDB..Sysobjects WHERE Type = 'u'

    Temp tables and table variables are added to the TempDB system tables when...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Multiple non clustered indexes OR compound non clustered index?

    Statistics are only kept on the first column in any non clustered index i.e. SQL Server will use the first field to determine whether an index should be used.

    Yes and...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: sqlserver 2005 Express

    That DB definitely has traces of transactional replication from somewhere in the past.

    Ok. Try this.

    Create a publication (transactional replication) in that database. Doesn't matter what's included. Pick any table.

    Once it'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: Performance in a standalone server and a cluster server

    They should be the same.

    The cluster admin adds almost no overhead to SQL. It's IsAlive checks are very low-impact.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to tell if Index stats need updating?

    george sibbald (10/9/2008)


    there is a column 'rowmodctr' in sysindexes which tracks the no of updates since the last update stats. Pretty sure this is what SQL uses for auto_update.

    It's what...

    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: Load Balancing needs identical servers ?

    No idea about the switch.

    Why are you looking to load balance SQL Server? App servers or web servers load balance well and easily. It's not something that's generally done with...

    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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