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  • RE: detach and re-attach mdf/ldf files results in read only database

    Is the F drive compressed or encrypted?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Selectivity Ratio - using Index

    Is the index covering? The 90% (often closer to 99%) applies when SQL needs to do bookmark lookups to the cluster/heap

    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: execution plan

    How are you viewing the execution plan?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Indexes

    Selectivity is a measure of how many different values are in the index compared with the number of total rows.

    If the values are unique, then you have 100% selectivity.

    I don't...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Server 2005 Questions

    Traceflags 1204 and 1205 are for finding deadlocks, not blocking chains

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Troubleshooting memory consumption/server freeze in SQL 2005

    webrunner (2/29/2008)


    3. I happened to be copying a backup file (11 GB) off of the server when this problem surfaced. I was copying from a different drive than the OS...

    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 got burned today at a SQL Server Interview!

    Lynn Pettis (2/29/2008)


    Since you would ask about Statistics in an interview, what can do you look for in an answer? I have been working with MS SQL Server since...

    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 got burned today at a SQL Server Interview!

    Jack Corbett (2/29/2008)


    This is when I hate coming to this site, because I'd probably fail in interview with you guys.

    I did say depending on the position. Someone applying for...

    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: Werid _WA_Sys Index

    Odd. SQL won't automatically create indexes, only statistics.

    Is it possible that someone created that index and gave it the same name as the statistic it was supposed to replace?

    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: INNER JOIN drags query

    Cool.

    Any chance of seeing the execution plans? Please?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: INNER JOIN drags query

    One thing I notice from that.

    You've got a TOP 100% ... ORDER BY in a sub query. It's useless there. Order by only applies in the outer select. It probably...

    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: Werid _WA_Sys Index

    The _WA_sys aren't indexes. They're automatically created column statistics. Nothing more.

    They're created to help the optimiser determine the number of rows that queries should return. They're created on columns that...

    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: why would 'create procedure' run?

    KATHLEEN Y ZHANG (2/28/2008)


    somehow a proc I created to monitor blocking shows 'create proc' on the blocking side and 'execute' on the blocker side. I am not sure why.

    How...

    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: Interview Tips

    lucky (2/28/2008)


    I'll be having an interview tomorrow and I would like to get some hot tips

    Sure.

    Be honest about your level of knowledge. Any competant interviewer can tell knowledge from...

    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: DBCC Checksum Returned Error

    Yup. I've seen that before.

    Had an old DB that we found corruption in. Had no idea how long it had been there, and the earliest backup we had was...

    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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