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  • RE: What's an MVP?

    I spoke with the South African MVP lead back in March on this topic. He said that in his opinion (not an official MS statement) the most important quality 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: Date Function

    Try this.

    DECLARE @TheDate DATETIME

    SET @TheDate = '1994-08-01 00:13:00.000'

    select dateadd(dd, datediff(dd,0, @TheDate),0)

    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: Select * shocking faster than Select individual columns

    Is it consistent? Did the data have to be fetched from disk on one? Possible blocking?

    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: SQL 2000 cluster getting rebooted on its own

    What I suspect is happening is that the cluster service notices that SQL is not responding (IsAlive Check) when SQL hits memory problems and forces a fail-over to the other...

    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: Performance Issue Of One Database Effecting Another

    Graham (7/8/2008)


    Hi Gail

    Thanks for your reply, i appreciate it, will get back to this thread tomorrow when the office is open.

    Yes i saw the full scans are pretty high, does...

    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: consistency error in xml_index_nodes

    sqlservercenter (7/8/2008)


    maybe you could consider to shrinke it first,

    then reindex or reorgnize is ok.

    Don't! Shrink! Your! Databases!

    tucankur: Have you checked for hardware errors? Reoccuring corruption can indicate a storage...

    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

    Suresh B. (7/8/2008)


    Is it possible to have 0 deadlocks in a busy multiuer system?

    Is it normal to have around 10 deadlocks daily?

    It is not normal to have 10 deadlocks 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: restore logs

    Mani Singh (7/8/2008)


    Here the STEPS you should perform.

    Kill destination connections. (run multiple times)

    set Db in single_user mode.

    Or just set the database into single user mode with rollback_immediate

    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 (7/8/2008)

    if you see a deadlock that is in place for a long time, make sure, it is not running a HUGE Query.. then kill the SPID associated 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Slow queries in reporting services! Bug or feature?

    And you see the one from reporting services with duration = 60 sec?

    Can you perhaps post the query?

    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: INDEX ON TABLES

    Index placement depends on what queries you have running and what your data distribution looks like. To put it very simply, you create indexes to support queries that you have...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Performance Issue Of One Database Effecting Another

    Firstly, you're on 32 bit. Unless you have AWE enabled and the /pae switch in boot.ini, SQL can only use 2 GB max. that would explain why so little memory...

    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: To Certify or Not To Certify

    Jeff Moden (7/8/2008)


    Based on what I've seen in real life at work...

    5% Newbie

    60% casual knowledge

    10% good knowledge

    5% DBA quality

    5% Developer quality

    5% Hybrid quality

    10% Stupid or dangerous or both

    I'd probably scale...

    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: What was your worst IT job you ever had?

    Grant Fritchey (7/8/2008)


    GilaMonster (7/8/2008)


    "We fixed it. No thanks to you."

    I can't honestly say that I wouldn't have hit the guy. Nice exercise in restraint.

    I very nearly put the pizza I...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: To Certify or Not To Certify

    Mark Horninger (7/8/2008)


    Jeff,

    Was it a test DB with space issues? Dunno why anyone would want do do that....

    Mark

    I think it was a posting on these forums. Stick...

    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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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