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  • RE: 70-444 exam format

    Only 431 has sims. All the others are case studies and multiple choice.

    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: Configuration of Agent XP brings down server

    Check the cluster logs and the event logs to see if you can find a reason for the service to fail over.

    Agent XPs are always switched to 0 as 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
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: tempdb order by issue

    Order by in an insert have no meaning, and if you don't specify the order in a select, no order is guaranteed.

    Rather do it this way.

    insert into #table

    select * 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Are Views Slow ?

    It they're written badly, they can be.

    Personally, I've not found views to be a problem, unless there are layers upon layers of views. If views reference other views which reference...

    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: datetime problem

    What's the data type of the column?

    If it's datetime, it doesn't have a format. The format of a datetime is solely due to the way it's queried.

    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: Complex (??) Query

    I'm guessing Jeff has something like this in mind. It's not a pivot, it's a concatenation and all the values will appear in one column.

    DECLARE @ConcatB VARCHAR(8000)

    SET @ConcatB = ''

    SELECT...

    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: Can somebody smarter than I am tell me why this query doesn't work?

    Why.... ????

    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 Query on SQL 2005 takes 100 times more than on SQL 2000

    If you restored a 2000 database onto 2005, you need to update all the statistics. SQL 2005 keeps more detailed stats than SQL 2000 did. The 2005 optimiser can use...

    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: why would 'create procedure' run?

    What method are you usind to see what's been excuted?

    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: Database snapshot permissions on a mirror

    Create the login with a matching SID and you should be good to go.

    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: Database snapshot permissions on a mirror

    You mean how to match up the newly created login with the database user?

    Fairly easy. The link between a login and the database user is the SID. You can...

    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: Big pages

    Something small that may help.

    I just noticed that the forum combo box at the bottom of every page has all the forums in it. Including all the hundreds of 'Content...

    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: Select Query on SQL 2005 takes 100 times more than on SQL 2000

    Have you updated stats/rebuilt indexes after migrating the db to 2005?

    If you look at the execution plan for both, what are the differences?

    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: JOB performance on SQL server 2005

    You need to update the statistics on all of your tables. SQL 2005 keeps more detailed column statistics than SQL 2000 did. The 2005 optimiser can use the older stats,...

    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: Delete the "BUILTIN\Administrators"

    Duplicate post. Ref - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic459568-359-1.aspx

    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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