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  • RE: Shall I Keep all existing index when tuning database with Multiple .trc files?

    Then you're about 90% safe to drop the indexes that the tuning wizard doesn't want.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Mystery Row Deletion

    Not unless you have some form of auditing in place already.

    Did someone perhaps delete and recreate the 'object'? If you have cascading delete, that may have caused it.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Thinking of starting a dating site for DBAs

    *RotFL* :hehe:

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Shall I Keep all existing index when tuning database with Multiple .trc files?

    Are you completely certain that the trace you have given the tuning wizard contains every single query that gets run against your SQl server, including any regular batch processes, month...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: SQL server become unresponsive

    How much memory on the server? What's SQL's max memory set to? Are there other apps on the server?

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Shall I Keep all existing index when tuning database with Multiple .trc files?

    I generally don't recommend that index tuning be done on an entire database at once. Too much opportunity for something to go wrong. i perfer to either tune indexes one...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: ROLLBACK TRANSACTION

    Yes, however...

    @@Error is set by every statement to the error that statement threw, or 0 if no error occured. In your example, if doSomething1 or DoSomething2 threw an error, you...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Clustered Index

    You can get just the user tables that have clustered indexes with this:

    Select object_name(id), name From sysobjects Where xtype = 'u' AND objectproperty(id,'TableHasClustIndex')=1

    and the user tables that don't have 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Best Practice for backups - include master, model, etc. db's?

    Rather have a scheduled task that connects to the instance via windows authentication and runs the backup database task. Or create a login that only have permission to backup 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Intellisense in SSMS 2008

    Exactly what I'm using.

    It's a pity. I want to like the 2008 intellisense, but it's irritating me. I can't find a way to change what triggers an auto complete,...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: The Top Ten Reasons to Attend the PASS Summit 2008

    Please post this as a new thread in the SQL Server 2000 administration forum.

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008

    Too expensive.

    I can understand why. Instructors don't come cheap and it it's 5 different instructors over a couple weeks, that is going to cost. Problem is, it's priced curently in...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: How to take backup of table in SQL2005

    You don't backup tables in SQL, you backup databases.

    You can export the table as csv, or make a copy of it in another database

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: populate a weeks worth of data from daily data

    Can you please give us the table structure, some sample data and an example of what you want out?

    Without that we're going to be guessing as to whether or not...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Undelete SPs

    There isn't an undelete function. There's no history unless you have an audit-trail or similar. There's no built-in source control of any form in SQL.

    Are you sure there's no backup...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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