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  • RE: An MVP From Way Down South

    rbarryyoung (7/3/2008)


    Woo-Hoo! Way to go Gail! :w00t:

    <grin> :w00t: πŸ˜€

    Despite the huge number of questions that she responds to, I don't think that I have ever seen her give...

    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: An MVP From Way Down South

    Thanks all. It's kinda unexpected.

    inus.dupreez (7/3/2008)


    Well done – you really deserve this… Hope to still work with you for some time as time is all I need to gain...

    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: Backup Chains

    Kyle Neier (7/3/2008)


    Clearly, Gail and Jeffrey are correct and I'm the one that should be apologizing.

    No worries. We've all done similar or worse.

    I appropriated your test code to show...

    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: Backup Chains

    Jeffrey Irish (7/3/2008)


    I had this all sorted out in my head before reading the whole chain thing in the article. I understand the concept of chaining, but it was 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Backup Chains

    Jeffrey Irish (7/3/2008)


    In theory you could recover to a point in time by restoring Sunday nights full backup and then running all the Transaction Logs through Thursday morning then, regardless...

    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: Backup Chains

    Jeffrey Irish (7/3/2008)


    I thought that the chain continued regardless of whether you took a Full backup in the middle of the day or not.

    You are correct, it does. Only 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Backup Chains

    Steve Hindle (7/3/2008)


    does this break the chain from the original backup and tran log backups?

    No. Tran log backups chain from another. Full backups do not truncate the transaction log, only...

    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: sp_executesql quirk/question

    Ok. There's no real gain from passing the db name into the sp_executesql, as it can't be used directly as a variable (as you've seen) This simplifies things a bit

    set...

    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: An MVP From Way Down South

    Thanks guys.

    This site and everyone here is what made it possible.

    Grant Fritchey (7/3/2008)


    Holy cow, all the cool kids seem to be hanging out here now.

    Careful, it seems 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: doubts in Indexing

    mahesh.kumar (7/3/2008)


    If i create non-unique, non-clustered index and filter through registrationo wil it become faster.

    Create the index on the registrationno column. It should be useful, depends on the 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: doubts in Indexing

    select * from gpsdata_history1_April

    That's going to table scan. It has to. You've asked for all the columns and all the rows, no filter. The only way that query can run...

    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: MS SQL Server 2005 Limits

    kevriley (7/3/2008)


    Plus be careful when calculating the number of bytes per row, as SQL will store some data off-row if the on-row limit is reached - so whilst the spec...

    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: MS SQL Server 2005 Limits

    The capacity specs are listed in books online. to briefly summarise:

    Database size 524,258 terabytes

    Files per database: 32,767

    File size (data): 16 terabytes

    Rows per table: Limited by available 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: dynamic database generation

    Rather create one database. The data volumes don't seem to be sufficient for the increase administrative complexity of multiple DBs

    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: An MVP From Way Down South

    Thanks All

    Christopher Stobbs (7/3/2008)


    Well done Gail...

    It's good to see a fellow South African representing in the world of SQL πŸ™‚

    Where in SA you from?

    Jo'burg. Are you coming to Teched next...

    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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