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  • RE: Super SQLServer configuration

    You can't do Raid 10 (striped and mirrored) with only two drives. It requires a minimum of 4. Also Raid 10 doesn't use parity. Raid 5 and a couple of...

    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: Confusion about Primary Database

    Each database needs a log, not each file. You can have multiple data files within one database and only one log file.

    What's the output of the following query?

    select DB_NAME(dbid), fileid,...

    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: Confusion about Primary Database

    Oh, and log shipping is used to create a warm standby database on a secondary server. It's a high-availability technology, so that if the main server completely fails, there's 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

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  • RE: Confusion about Primary Database

    Each database will have one primary data file (.mdf), zero or more secondary data files (.ndf) and one or more log files (.ldf).

    It is not possible to have a 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

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  • RE: Re: High CPU Utilization Troubleshooting

    If every time the developer runs his code there's a problem, I'd statrt by looking at that developer's code. If there's nothing wring there, run profiler for a while and...

    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: Blocked by -2 SQL Server 2000 with SP4

    The permanent solution is to find the source of the indoubt transactions and fix that application to handle its transactions properly.

    Are you using Java apps?

    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 2005 Developer Meterial Needed

    I'll be my usual blunt self on this topic.

    Using brain dumps is cheating, plain and simple. The same as if you got hold of a test sheet before an exam...

    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: AI? Writing Business Algorithms on Dates and Values

    Could you be a bit more specific on what you 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: Super SQLServer configuration

    Make sure you set the max memory for each instance. You do not want multiple instances on a 64 bit server competing for memory. It can lead to interesting issues...

    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: SHOWCONTIG and Index Fill Factor

    Post the query here if you want advice.

    Be careful of the tuning advisor's suggestions. It frequently suggests far more than is necessary.

    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: sysindexes.lockflags

    Sysindexes is only included for backward compatibility, and shouldn't be used in new development.

    Besides that, perhaps it will be easier to query the allow_row_locks and allow_page_locks columns in sys.indexes 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: Is there Any Differeence ?

    For info on execution plans, there's a great book available from redgate (free when you download an evaluation of any of their tools) on reading execution plans.

    Or you can...

    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 Training Value

    Anirban Paul (8/20/2008)


    Training definitely has its value but lot of companies (Read Management) do not keen of providing quality training to their people. One because of cost and second beacuase...

    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: viewing sql log on the command line

    bodhilove (8/19/2008)


    Hi Folks,

    is there any way you can view the sql log (the one under management in SSMS) from the command line?

    It's a simple text file and will open 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

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  • RE: convert the datatype string to date

    I think the problem is those 00000000 values. They aren't convertable to datetime.

    Try this

    update tablename set newcolumn=CAST(oldcolumn AS DATETIME) WHERE ISDATE(oldcolumn)=1

    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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