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  • RE: Stored proc getting timeout

    It's the stored proc.

    Not uncommon for a dev server not to show performance issues that prod does. Dev typically has tiny data sets and a couple of users at most....

  • RE: Stored proc getting timeout

    A timeout means that the procedure is running for longer than the application is willing to wait. You'll need to analyse the proc, identify the cause of the poor performance...

  • RE: Intensive lock

    If that was my system, I'd start by looking at the execution plan and seeing if the index is optimal. Good chance it isn't.

  • RE: Intensive lock

    sqlfriends (3/30/2015)


    If blocking is not the issue, what could it be?

    Where did I say that blocking is not the issue?

    It's lock-related waits, that's blocking by definition.

    I said "the blocking process...

  • RE: Statistics Udate question

    There isn't a threshold. A table which never gets updated could have stats 5 years old which are still good. A table which gets updated thousands of times a second...

  • RE: CTE Syntax

    stephen.long.1 (3/31/2015)


    Regardless of the merits of adding semicolons at the end of all statements (something which I don't do, but should), why is the WITH statement so much more picky...

  • RE: Unique Index

    If you can figure out a computed column that will always be unique, using your requirements and probably the primary key, you can put a unique index on that

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Brandie Tarvin (3/31/2015)


    GilaMonster (3/31/2015)


    Nice attitude...

    if you had type this in the first place, then i would not have shouted... hehe

    Thank you for your First informative reply.

    Dare we ask which poster?

    I'm...

  • RE: Software Engineering in Practice

    Yet Another DBA (3/31/2015)


    The "Most of those I have worked with " is based on experience and not some slapdash generalisation

    Fair enough. 🙂

    I think the majority of people I've worked...

  • RE: Sql server 2005 --> 2014 upgrade. Risks/things to consider/etc...

    Kris Gruttemeyer (3/30/2015)


    Even crazier, check out what version it upgrades to, this is from SQL2005 SP3, being restored to SQL2014 CU6:

    Database 'Utilities' running the upgrade step from version 781 to...

  • RE: Software Engineering in Practice

    Yet Another DBA (3/31/2015)


    Most of those I have worked with that do have a CS degree dont tend to understand databases to any depth, but instead want to see the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    spaghettidba (3/31/2015)


    GilaMonster (3/31/2015)


    Not efficient as it prevents index seeks, not that a text column can have indexes, but I don't like teaching bad options.

    Exactly my point: a bad option is...

  • RE: Unique Index

    DBA From The Cold (3/31/2015)


    I don't think OR is supported in filtered indexes WHERE clause.

    That's my recollection as well. Filtered indexes are nice in places, but they're still very...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    spaghettidba (3/31/2015)


    GilaMonster (3/31/2015)


    Nice attitude...

    if you had type this in the first place, then i would not have shouted... hehe

    Thank you for your First informative reply.

    You're far too kind. I have...

  • RE: Database files mismatched

    You can detach/attach or you can use ALTER DATABASE ... MODIFY and then change the names of the files in the file system, same process as you'd use to move...

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