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  • RE: All I Want For Christmas Is ...

    Will Summers (12/11/2007)


    ( I wouldn't complain either if I got to play golf in shorts on xmas day though.)

    Come visit my neck of the woods. Christmas day here is...

    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: Passing Porcedure Parameters using N'

    We've all done it at least once.

    I told a lot of people that truncate wasn't logged and couldn't be rolled back. Even mentioned that in some code reviews I did....

    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: Dead lock

    It's fine. Just to interpret the graph requires most of it. I'll note which lines say what, so that you can see how I read the graph. (I just numbered...

    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: All I Want For Christmas Is ...

    Jeff Moden (12/5/2007)


    I've got my health, a great job, a great set of bosses (yeah, more than one), a wonderful Fiancée who is also my best friend, and 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

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  • RE: Need more available memory for SQL 2005...what are my options?

    Please don't cross post. Continued here

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic431592-149-1.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

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  • RE: difference between Len() and DataLength()

    The N signifies that the following value is unicode (nvarchar/nchar)

    The LEN should return the same, the datalenght for the N-prefixed value should be twice that for the value without 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: Performance Tuning and Database Tuning Advisor SQL 2005

    Agreed. They, along with the index usage stats are among the first things I check when tuning.

    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: Passing Porcedure Parameters using N'

    I'm not sure I follow you. Can you post what you've tried and what error it gives please?

    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: Performance Tuning and Database Tuning Advisor SQL 2005

    If you know little to nothing about indexing, the DTA may be a good place to start. It's better that the index tuning wizard was (but that's not saying much)

    Personally,...

    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: Subqueries, Temporary tables and CTEs

    Derek Dongray (12/10/2007)


    Basically, the question is "can the optimiser recognise an uncorrelated subquery (or CTE) and separate it out as query into an internal temporary table

    My guess is not. I've...

    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: Dead lock

    That doesn't look like the entire deadlock graph. Post the whole thing (in code blocks) please.

    From the bit there, I can see the following.

    The deadlock was between processes 130 and...

    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: 70-447 coming up...

    Good luck.

    I'm writing this one on friday morning. Still need to work through two of the course guides. :Whistling:

    Shall we compare results monday morning?

    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: difference between Len() and DataLength()

    Datalength works on text and ntext data types where len does 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: Index Scan vs Index Seek

    Ananth (12/10/2007)


    whether index scan reads the data from index or table? if it reads from the table then there is no advantage of this index scan because , it is...

    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: Shrinking a live DB

    You can, but you will have a performance impact. How much depends on your hardware and the activity.

    Try shrinking in smaller chunks. Sometimes that works out faster overall. Even if...

    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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