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  • RE: To Certify or Not To Certify

    Jeff Moden (7/6/2008)


    I wonder how many questions they have on cursors now adays... If it's more than 5, I would flunk because I avoid them like the plague.

    I don't actually...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Handling Huge SQL Database

    That particular query shouldn't need tempDB space, as it has no query operators that require a work table. Sorts, hash joins, hash aggregates and other operators require space in 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: doubts in Indexing

    Now we're getting somewhere useful.

    Aprox how many rows would that query return? How many in the total table?

    Ignoring covering for now (will get back to that once I have 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: SQL Profiler andFiltering

    Could you explain a bit more what kind of filtering you're trying to do?

    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: To Certify or Not To Certify

    Vivien Xing (7/6/2008)


    I think MVP is more valuable than the certificate.

    And significantly harder to get. Plus it's about different things. MVP is about community involvement more than anything

    Congratulations Gail!...

    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: Clear Message in Stored Procedure

    Ok, I have to ask. Why are you truncating and shrinking your log file?

    If you don't care about being able to restore to a point-in-time, set the database into simple...

    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: Effect of UPDATE STATISTICS

    Is there any blocking? If you look at the results from profiler, are certain queries slow and other not?

    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: Effect of UPDATE STATISTICS

    Hmmm. Probably not. Sorry, I missed that it was the people using the 2000 box that were having problems.

    Yup, is a good time for profiler. Also maybe start up perfmon...

    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 Need Full Info of MCTS(70-431) exam,Please give me Tutorial and Hints.

    I believe it is 1000, though I have not seen that officially confirmed and I don't know anyone who's received that. (Best I've done is 984 on a VB exam...

    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: To Certify or Not To Certify

    Jeff Moden (7/5/2008)


    That's where you and I may differ... I don't ask questions that appear on the certification...

    Nor do I.

    What I mean is that is someone says they...

    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: query performance problem

    rbarryyoung (7/5/2008)


    Secondly, to do anything with this, we need to see the table definitions and the table relationships.

    And for performance problems, the index definitions are also very important....

    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: To Certify or Not To Certify

    To clarify:

    I do recommend that people get certified, but not because that it will not guarantee a job (it won't). But because in the process of studying for the cert...

    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: Copying tables from one database to another (databases are on different servers)

    bcp is a command line import/export tool. There are a multitude of command line options and switches. Books Online has a full list of all and some examples on usage.

    Basically...

    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: To Certify or Not To Certify

    I have different ways I feel about certifications in different circumstances.

    When I'm interviewing, I assume that the fact that a person has a certification means that he/she knows that area....

    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 do I move SQL from 32 to 64?

    Doctor Who 2 (7/4/2008)


    I've got a couple of SQL Server 2005 databases on a 32-bit OS, which I want to move to a 64-bit OS. Can I just copy...

    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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