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  • RE: Printing Custom Forms from a Trigger

    Consider service broker. The triggers just insert messages into the queue. Message delivery (may be the same db) triggers off a async process that goes off and does whatever necessary...

    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: Data in Use or Data in memory

    Jeff Moden (9/29/2007)


    Like I said, stop trying to decrypt the whole table... encrypt the lookup criteria and do a normal join or WHERE 😉

    Won't work with 2005's encryption routines. They're...

    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: Time zone problem

    Maybe. I picked GMT-2, not SA specifically. Maybe DST is enabled for all zones by default. Hmmm, checking DST has no effect, neither does unchecking it. Very weird.

    Isn't a big...

    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: 500,000th member mark

    Congrats. When's the party? 🙂

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: What is a Case Study??

    Damon Wilson (9/28/2007)Like GilaMonster mentioned, you may get 2 Case Study questions in your pool of 25 (or however many) exam questions. You have the entire 90 or 60...

    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: Tempdb Contention

    iirc, it wasn't a class. Was during supper on friday night. Was a group of 12 or so of us and most of the people at the table were MVPs...

    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 we modify system tables in SQL Server 2000?

    May I ask what you're trying to do and why you find it necessary to change the system tables? That way lies madness

    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: Selecting Preformatted Dates in SQL Server 2000

    If I may suggest, do your formatting on the front end, not in SQL. VB has far more options for date formats than SQL does and it quite a bit...

    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: Is this workable

    MSDB is a perfect example of how not to design a database. Every time I have to get data from that DB I end up tearing more hair out.

    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: Tempdb Contention

    p.s. If you can, go and sit with one of the users who is complaining so that you can see what's happening.

    I heard a good story at PASS. One guy...

    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: Tempdb Contention

    Jeff Moden (9/27/2007)


    You could start by running sp_Lock during the periods of slowness. Running sp_HelpDB will allow you to figure out the DBID for TempDB... check for blocking on...

    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

    The agent XPs always change from 1 to 0 as the server starts shutting down. It's an effect, not a cause.

    What caused the shutdown is another matter. What's 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: SQL 2005 Trace DURATION (Millisecs in Profiler, Microsecs in Table)

    There's an option in the profiler gui that sets whether the duration displays as milliseconds or microseconds. It measures in microseconds regardless, as do some of the performance related DMVs

    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: What is a Case Study??

    Couple times I had only 2-3 questions on a case study. Is not fun as the time is short. First time I got one of those I hadn't finished reading...

    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: Problem with log file

    May I suggest, once you've got this mess sorted out, considering table partitioning for such a large table? That way you'll have several smaller tables that appear to be 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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