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  • RE: Local Temporary Tables and Table Variables

    Probably because of the affect they have on queries. Bad cardinality = bad query plans = higher than expected IO and CPU.

    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: Intellisense in SSMS 2008

    Tomm Carr (9/8/2008)


    There must be a way to get IntelliSense to update its internal data structures that contain the layout of a table, but I have searched the documentation...

    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: Clarification!

    So, if you obtained the question and answer sheets for an upcoming college/university exam and used those to prep for the exam, would that be cheating, or smart work?

    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: Physical Stat

    An existing table, or a hypothetical table?

    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: Physical stats

    Please don't cross post. It jsut wastes people's time and fragments replies. Many of us read all the forums

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic565566-8-1.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: DBCC CHECKDB didn't repair the errors.

    Check the windows event log, see if you have any drive errors. SQL doesn't corrupt its own files.

    If the problem keeps reoccurring, I would suggest you move 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: starting db instance under a non-Administrator Account

    SQL should run under a non-administrative account. It's a security best practice.

    Create a domain account for SQL. I would suggest that you se the domain account so that it 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: Move database/ldf file

    GSquared (9/5/2008)


    I moved a database just last week just using the Alter Database commands, and the files ended up where I wanted them. Of course, that was tempdb, which...

    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: Regarding Two Database

    If there's no chance of overlap (which sound like there isn't in this case), that should be union all. Union means that SQL will do a distinct sort of 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: Regarding Two Database

    You can write your stored procedures so that they reference tables in both databases. Or, if the developers are beiong lazy and writing ad-hoc SQL code, they can use 3-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: Why TOP is required in ORDER BY clause?

    Because an order by is only valid in the outermost select statement. It can be used within other blocks, but then must be a part of a TOP n, where...

    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: Full backup in recovery mode

    The only time you can use a snapshot like that is if you have database mirroring. Providing the mirror DB is synchronised (note, synchronised, not running in synchronous mode), then...

    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: SQL Server

    What's the purpose behind this? Redesigning a database that's in use is not something that I see done often. It can require a lot of time and money and, unless...

    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: SQL in Latex

    LaTeX - it's a document markup language that's used extensively in academic fields. Based on TeX

    http://www.latex-project.org/

    Timothy: Personally I'd just use a verbatim block, then you can format it any way...

    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: backup during replication

    You can take backups of the log of a database that's used for replication as long as the DB is in full recovery mode. No problems there

    The log shipping requires...

    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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