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  • RE: Super-long-running query?

    Then that should have only affected your local machine, not 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

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  • RE: Transaction Deadlock

    Mayank Khatri (7/30/2008)


    By Acessing you mean r they just Selecting(DDL Statements) or modifying it too(DML statements)?

    Selects are also classified DML statements. DDL are data definition statements, things like create 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: Transaction Deadlock

    The first step to solving deadlocks is finding the cause. Two ways to do that, you can set up a trace and monitor the deadlock graph events, second 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: How can we set the Time Zone of a database permenently?

    SQL defers to the OS for knowing date, time and timezone. You can't set it within SQL 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

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  • RE: How to Increase the buffer pool

    Why do you think it's related to the buffer pool?

    You increase the buffer pool by increasing the amount of memory allocated to SQL server. The amount of memory specified 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: Shrink database on tempDB

    Shrinking databases is not recommended at all, not just shrinking of TempDB. Why are you shrinking your databases every day? If you're not rebuilding all indexes after the shrink 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

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  • RE: Urgent help required !!!!!

    Has anyone dropped or changed an index?

    Are any of the indexes fragmented?

    Are the statistics up to date?

    What does the execution plan of that query show?

    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: Index Usage

    A clustered index scan is a table scan. It's a full and complete read of all of the data pages in the table. You see the operation as a 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: Indexing on Foreign Keys is advisable or not?

    Preferably an index seek. An index scan isn't that much better than a table scan.

    Most of the time I prefer a nonclustered index, but there may be some cases 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: Trigger on select

    Dependencies are entered when dependant items are creates. So if you create a stored proc that uses a particular table, when you create the proc, the relevant entries are added...

    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 2008 Exam 70-448 Qualifications

    You don't need any proof of experience to write or to get the cert.

    How are you studying for the exam if you don't have all the relevant experience?

    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: isolation level

    Downside is that snapshot isolation puts extra load on your TempDB

    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 long do you keep your log backups?

    I generally prefer to keep two fulll backups (weekly), the diffs made against them (daily) and and of the log backups going back to the first of the fulls. That...

    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 MEMORY CONSUMPTION PROBLEM

    What do you mean by 'memory consumption 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: Controlling log file growth without limiting size

    Since everyone's beaten me to the 'don't shrink', I'll just touch on other areas

    You said the DBs are in full recovery. Do you have log backups running and, if so,...

    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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