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  • RE: Having trouble with a query...may be a crosstab issue

    Have a look at the PIVOT keyword in SQL 2005. It may help with what you're trying to do.

    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: The preceding restore operation did not specify WITH NORECOVERY or WITH STANDBY

    Then what you're trying to do is impossible with backups.

    To allow the users to write, the last backups needs to be restored with recovery. That means to apply any more...

    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: Backups -What point of the backup would be reflected in the restore ?

    Have a look at this:

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/2008/01/31/MoreOnHowMuchTransactionLogAFullBackupIncludes.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: If you can read this...

    GSquared (9/11/2008)


    To my understanding, they didn't actually perform any collisions yesterday, they just fired some particles around in a circle to make sure it was working.

    They did some collisions, but...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: The preceding restore operation did not specify WITH NORECOVERY or WITH STANDBY

    Depends what you need the secondary to be doing. Read-only or read-write?

    If you can consider an upgrade to 2005, you could use database mirroring with a snapshot on the mirror...

    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: Explanation of query plan

    There's not really anything like that, because all of the operators have their places and times when they are optimal.

    You could read through Grant Fitchley's book on exec plans. Last...

    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: Why use a limited domain account, not local system account, for services?

    Because sometimes the SQL Service needs to be able to access resources other than on the local machine. Other SQL Servers, other database servers, file shares, etc.

    If you make local...

    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: The preceding restore operation did not specify WITH NORECOVERY or WITH STANDBY

    You can apply the diff with NORECOVERY/STANDBY as well, but it means that the DB will either be completely inaccessible (norecovery) or readonly (standby)

    If you want to bring the DB...

    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 when upgrading to SQL 2008 with a renamed 'sa' account

    mattjk (9/10/2008)


    Bah, I see you get a mention by name for finding the other places sa is hard-coded, but what do I get for the bug report, diagnosis and work-around......

    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: MS-SQL server 2005 fails to restore

    Are you perhaps trying to restore a 2005 database to SQL 2000?

    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: Want to trace what transactions happend in database during certain time

    Unless you have some form of auditing already in place, you won't be able to see what happened. The error log just stored details of errors and informational messages.

    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: Sqlserver2005 Space limit

    For the third time, the maximum limit to concurrent connections in SQL Server 2005 is 32767.

    The value that you see under the server properties - connections can be set by...

    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: Urgent Question re. SQL 2005 Performance: Replication vs Clustering

    Merge replication != minimal overhead. In my experience, it's the type of replication that puts the most load onto the servers. It sounds like what you want is peer to...

    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: amount difference between 2 dats

    Any chance of duplicate dates?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Covering Index Vs Composite Index

    A covering index is an index that contains all the columns that a query references. An index may be covering for one query and not for another.

    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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