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  • RE: Why does Express show better performance than Stardand when DB size < 2G?

    Were you testing on the same machine or different? Were the settings of the 2 SQL instances the same?

    I can't really offer a suggestion without more info. What did you...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL 64-bit setup

    Always, always set the max memory on 64 bit systems with lots of memory. SQL loves memory and will happily starve the OS if permitted.

    I've seen my 48 GB 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: Stored Procedure Review

    Sandy (7/23/2008)


    Simon,

    but how you identify this?....;)

    To get out of a while loop, there must be a statement within the loop that sets the variable involved in the while condition 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: Why does Express show better performance than Stardand when DB size < 2G?

    Same database, same data, same hardware, same queries?

    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: need help with trigger

    Pleasure

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Handling Tempdb space full situtation?

    Jeff Moden (7/23/2008)


    GilaMonster (7/23/2008)


    On my main system, TempDB is 6 files of 8 GB each.

    Now THAT sounds like a fun system to be on and that the DBA (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: Handling Tempdb space full situtation?

    Jeff Moden (7/23/2008)


    Wow... That's amazing, Ross... I haven't heard anything like that in a long time... please tell me those DBA's weren't actually certified...

    Depends. Do you mean certified as 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: DBCC CHECKDB didn't repair the errors.

    It looks like all the errors are in the nonclustered indexes. I would suggest dropping and recreating all of the nonclustered indexes and constraints on the table 'SyncServerState' and recreate...

    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: Handling Tempdb space full situtation?

    Ross McMicken (7/23/2008)


    The DBA's that specified the 50MB were of the opinion that aproperly designed application doesn't need more tempdb. I was glad I didn't have to deal with them....

    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.

    Got a backup?

    There are cases where CheckDB cannot repair. They're not common, but they do happen. If you run into that your oprions are usally restore a backup (which is...

    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: will anyone help me how to design the database

    GSquared (7/22/2008)


    With the little you've given, all I can really say is "make sure you have enough drive space".

    and more than one independant RAID array.

    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: I/O timeouts writing to a transaction log - Please Help!

    Those disk stats don't look good. The sec/write is far too high. Could you plese describe how the disks are set up. How many diska, how many separate arrays, what...

    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 create new instance in sql server 2005

    A full new instance with a different instance name, separate services, etc?

    You install SQL again and when it asks for default or named instance, you give it the name 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: Help with file and wait stats

    CXPacket is caused by parallel skew, when a process parallels and the part on the one processor runs faster than the other (usually due to having an imbalanced split 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: Deadlocks in subselect

    This strange thing is that unless you are running in a high isolation level or this select is inside a trigger, a select shouldn't cause a deadlock.

    A deadlock requires 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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