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  • RE: Backup Advice

    dbaInTraining (5/19/2008)


    I think you kind of stumped me. I thought that was a best practice. If there was a need to restore, use the last full, then the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Reorganising and Rebuilding Indexes

    A heap is a table without a clustered index. It may or may not have nonclustered indexes on it. You can rebuild nonclustered indexes that are on a heap, but...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Msdb mark Suspect

    What does the SQL error log say about the reason the database is suspect? There should be some evidence in there.

    Be aware that if you recreate msdb, you will lose...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Parallel file operations

    Looks about right.

    I wouldn't worry about splittng files/filegroups unless you're noticing some form of IO contention

    high numbers of pending IOs within SQL, high disk queue length (though that counter's fairly...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: The Best Way to Find Quality People

    GSquared (5/19/2008)


    perhaps more importantly, I'm seriously bored and this job is going nowhere slowly.

    That's the no.1 reason I gave my boss when I told him I would be leaving...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Locking and blocking - WITH (READPAST) Does not work as expected

    Michael Earl (5/19/2008)


    NOLOCK reads dirty pages, so by inconsistent data I mean your application may present data not only uncommitted data that could be rolled back, but you cound, in...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Create a rowID

    Matt Miller (5/19/2008)


    (it's also a one-way ticket as I recall, so you can't "downgrade").

    Compat mode can be changed up and down, no issues. All that happens if you drop...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Performance duplicate index

    More space. It's a second copy of the index. It will also mean more overhead on insert/update/delete as both indexes will have to be updated, rather than just one.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Translog filling fast - attack on SQL?

    You can read the tran log manually, but it's very hard to understand.

    SELECT * from fn_dblog(null, null)

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Create a rowID

    SQL 2005?

    You may have some luck with the ROW_NUMBER function. Try partition by PER_ID, order by Sch

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Reindexing problem(Please help)

    mobasha (5/18/2008)


    if u want u can choose the most accessed tables then rebuild the indexes manually,

    then update thier statistics with full scan.

    thats only if u want to gain some time...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Translog filling fast - attack on SQL?

    You could run a server-side trace, using the sp_trace* procs. It's very light weight, much lighter than the profiler front end. You can get profiler to script out the trace...

    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: Parallel file operations

    Make sure you're read this:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2007/02/21/sql-server-urban-legends-discussed.aspx

    SQL does not use 1 thread for I/O per data file.

    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: Locking and blocking - WITH (READPAST) Does not work as expected

    It could be that you're getting a lock escalation to a table lock. Readpast only goes past page and row locks. A table lock will still block it.

    I have no...

    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: The Best Way to Find Quality People

    Down in my part of the world, skilled people are leaving for Australia and New Zealand at an ever-increasing rate. 2 friends of mine (both skilled IT people) have left...

    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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