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  • RE: transaction logs

    Shouldn't take that long. I've got a 800 GB database that restores in just over an hour. If it's really slow, check your disk speed and performance

    You can restore with...

    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: Hurting performance instead of improving

    DBRindex updates the stats with full scan. What I always advise against is doing a sampled update stats (the default) after a reindex, because the update stats can leave 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

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  • RE: transaction logs

    Test your backups after you make them. An untested backup is more dangerous than no backup at all.

    Make sure you're running log backups if you need to be able 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: Getting an intermittent error, A system assertion check has failed.

    I would suggest calling MS's customer support people. This kind of error is very hard for us to help you with. (details here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295539)

    Logging a call does cost, but...

    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: Brain Dead Moment

    Lynn Pettis (7/9/2008)


    Oh, should I do that before or after DBCC UPDATEUSAGE? Couldn't remember the DBCC command so I started with updating the statistics.

    😎

    Doesn't matter. All updateusage does 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: I/O Error

    This just got posted today. Very useful

    http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2008/07/08/sql-server-i-o-bottleneck-i-don-t-have-one-yes-you-do.aspx

    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: Brain Dead Moment

    Have you done an UPDATE STATISTICS?

    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: What's an MVP?

    gravittl (7/9/2008)


    As a DBA who manages on different platforms and databases than just SQL Server, the downside I see is that anytime I see a quote from anyone tagged as...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: moving database to another machine

    Mani Singh (7/9/2008)


    After the Move, Change the compatibility level

    Why would you change the compatibility level after moving a database to another 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: Deadlocks

    Mani Singh (7/9/2008)


    Adding to it:

    sometimes, the Deadlocks might resolve by themselves in time, but if you kill a long waiting deadlock, you might end up with a Phantom Process/lock 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: Itanium vs. x86 - Which is better ?

    robin.porter (7/9/2008)


    The question was really around 64bit Xeon vs. IA64 Itanium.

    Go for the 64bit Xeon. The itanium's not worth the extra hassles that it will cause.

    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: Prod Server Down !!! CPU Hike with 8645 error in the error log

    So, what did sysprocesses and the perfmon counters show?

    Check this and see if it maybe matches your problem - Memory and SP2[/url]

    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: Date Function

    Jeff Moden (7/9/2008)


    Oh yeah... almost forgot... there is one faster method... convert to Float, distribute Floor, convert back to DateTime... but most people don't use that because it only brings...

    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: Tables Join Problem

    Welcome.

    First, please read this - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

    If you can give us your table structure, a sample of the data in it and an indication of the results you want, I'm sue...

    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: Itanium vs. x86 - Which is better ?

    I don't know if the x86 quads will beat the itaniums (can you even get x86 quads?) but the x64s could quite easily beat the performance of the Itanium servers,...

    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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