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  • RE: Transaction Log and Recovery Model

    Molly Cary (9/22/2008)


    Backups are scheduled every hour from 6am to 9pm

    Full, diff or log backups?

    Do you have any DB maintenance happening after 9pm (index rebuilds)?

    What's the pattern of 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: Server Performance

    What do the following two counters look like?

    Physical disk: Avg sec/read

    Physical disk: Avg sec/write

    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: Transaction Log and Recovery Model

    You can use profiler to see all the queries run against a server.

    To check:

    What recovery model is the DB in?

    Do you have log backups running (not applicable if the 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: How to restart the SQL cluster server?

    Duplicate post. No replies to this thread please. Replies to

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic573532-5-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Can we restore the SQL 2005 backup on SQL 2000 server?

    No.

    Databases cannot be downgraded in version (2008 to 2005, 2005 to 2000)

    To get a SQL 2005 DB to SQL 2000 you'll have to script out the schema, bcp out the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: When is a Database truly a SQL Server 2005 Database?

    GSquared (9/22/2008)


    Once you switch to 90, you can't switch back to 80, except by restoring from a backup taken before the switch. (Which means, of course, that you'd lose...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: When is a Database truly a SQL Server 2005 Database?

    webrunner (9/22/2008)


    I have a SQL 2000 database on a SQL 2005 server (still in 80 compatibility mode), and it seems that some standard reports (Index Physical Stats, etc.) don't run....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Lost SQL Query need to find the Select SQL in a transaction log

    Depends how often it's used, how expensive it was to compile, how much memory pressure the server's under and a whole bunch of other stuff. The table's not a list...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Training, please!?

    vrailean (9/22/2008)


    Like what kind of...? I would like a proper mentor/trainer on SQL ....

    The book suggestion was for bhuvnesh, since he asked about certification notes.

    I don't live in...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL Training, please!?

    bhuvnesh.dogra (9/22/2008)


    i also in queue with vrailean ...actually i want do SQL server certification 2005 ..can somebody give me some papaers or notes 🙂

    The self-paced training kits from...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Table level Backup

    No, just the last diff, then the log backups from that diff up until the point of the dropped table.

    Differential backups are cumulative from the last full backup.

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

    You don't want to join in the where clause. It's an old join style and outer joins (which you need here) are not supported any longer.

    Does this work?

    SELECT entity_id,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Training, please!?

    Where are you based in the world?

    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: Lost SQL Query need to find the Select SQL in a transaction log

    Should work. It definitely exists on SQL 2000. Maybe try prefixing with the master DB, though that shouldn't be necessary on SQL 2000, only on 2005 and higher.

    select * from...

    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: Indexing

    susantapattu (9/22/2008)


    3. What will be the affect of adding a clustered & non clustered index on each and every column of a table consisting large no of rows?

    Massive waste of...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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