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  • RE: Changing the Current Schema on the FLY

    For instance I dont want to have to prepend all the tables in my query with the fully qualified name.

    Why not? Unqualified naming can lead to slower queries and unnecessary...

    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 anyone be so green?

    SQL unfortunatly likes to be on a server of its own. It doesn't like sharing resources with anything. It could be worse. I've seen someone put SQL on the same...

    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 anyone be so green?

    Having SQL Server on the same machine as exchange server is not a recomended practice.

    See if you can find out how much memory SQL is using and how much exchange...

    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: SQL Query Tuning

    I would suggest running it with the execution plan on, as well as the IO and time statistics. That way you can work out which of the queries are 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: Keeping client database up-to-date

    Sounds like a good candidate for transactional replication.

    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: Partitioned tables

    Then partition them. Use whatever parition scheme makes the most sense for the tables

    They don't all have to have the same partition function. Related tables don't have to be correlated.

    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 anyone be so green?

    Rob, sounds like you need some on-site help. Whereabouts are you based?

    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 Off

    So why don't you come back?

    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 anyone be so green?

    The MSDE box was a test box not the production box. If tou read the first post, he is using SQL 2000 sp4 as the production db

    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: Partitioned tables

    Ah, sorry. I misunderstood. I thought you wanted to convert three tables into 1 partitioned table.

    As I said before, the examples may show partitions done on datatime columns, but you...

    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: Partitioned tables

    I think you've misunderstood partitioned tables.

    Partitioned tables are for when you want to split a single table into pieces either for IO performance or for fast loading and deleting of...

    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: Partitioned tables

    Partitioned tables don't need any specific scolumn types in them. The common example is to partition on a datetime column (ann rows between 1 jan 2005 to 31 dec 2005...

    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: Can anyone be so green?

    I have a client with SQL 2000 SP4 on his Small Business Server 2003.

    From what I read, the real server is full SQL. MSDE was used as a test by...

    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 anyone be so green?

    Can I run the DBCC DBREINDEX commands on a database that's in use?  I found an article on the web that says go ahead, and another that warns NEVER to...

    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: What is object zero in a database

    There is no object 0. If a page is allocated to object 0, it means that it is an unowned (empty) page. It sounds like there may be some chain...

    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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