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  • RE: Database snapshot - server A - server B

    No.

    A snapshot is not a backup. It's just a collection of the original version of pages that have changed in its source database since the snapshot was created. It...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: T-Sql procedure taking hours to execute

    If you want people to help you, you're going to have to post more than that. Start with table definitions, sample data (in the form of insert statements) and your...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: CTE to improve performance

    nadersam (10/11/2015)


    If i have a view referencing many tables, what's the order of fetching for data, is it

    1. The inner joins between tables.

    2. Where conditions defined in the view

    3....

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Struggling with Nested Transaction ......

    There's no such thing as a nested transaction. It's just syntatical lies.

    Naming a transaction does nothing at all. It's basically a form of documentation, it's ignored almost everywhere.

    The first begin...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: alternate of Case statement for performance improvement of Query

    Duplicate post. No replies here please. Direct replies to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1727146-3077-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Shrink log files in SQL 2014 alwaysOn

    Why do you want to shrink the log? Have you identified and fixed what caused the log to grow in the first place?

    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: Database in Suspect Mode

    Before you do anything, you need to identify why the database went suspect. Check the error log. Look for ALL messages relating to the database from when the disks went...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Trainig for 70-462 -- Practice Test

    MiguelSQL (10/9/2015)


    http://www.braindump2go.com/70-462.html --> $100

    Buyer beware.

    https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/certification-exam-policies.aspx

    If a candidate violates any testing rule, exam policy or term within the exam agreement (NDA), or engages in any misconduct that diminishes...

    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 Min and Max Mem on cluster

    Which one you go for depends on your requirements.

    If node 2 fails, and instances 3 and 4 fail over to node 1, are the applications which use them required to...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Sql Server Min and Max Mem on cluster

    Probably still too high, the OS needs more than 6GB or memory to manage 256GB. I'd suggest no higher than 110 for each instance to start with, or you're going...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Sql Server Min and Max Mem on cluster

    Those new values are way too high, you're leaving no memory for the OS under normal conditions, and near guaranteeing major memory contention if there's ever a failover. Even the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Should we use views or create a data mart?

    Sean Lange (10/9/2015)


    It will generate an execution plan for this view if one is not already cached when a select statement is executed. If the execution plan already exists in...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Should we use views or create a data mart?

    thebrewersinaz (10/9/2015)


    So when the first user calls the view the view and it physically gets created how long will that view stay available for other users and how would...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: High number of VLFs

    Perry Whittle (10/9/2015)


    are you saying with a restore you wont see enough recovery to cause any impact?

    No, I'm not saying that.

    I'm saying that the recovery process after a restore...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Should we use views or create a data mart?

    thebrewersinaz (10/9/2015)


    I am not really sure how a view would speed things up.

    It won't.

    If I have 20 users and they all call a view the view is created 20 times...

    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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