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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (1/14/2015)


    Maybe I'm in a weird head-space at the moment, but it seems like the questions have gotten... not worse, but weirder. Sort of off the wall, no?

    I'm with...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: log shipping bandwith estimation and backup size estimation

    Bear in mind that it's not going to match the size of the log backups exactly and if you're compressing the log backups it's not going to match at all.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Shrinking log

    ramana3327 (1/7/2015)


    In general how often we can shrink the logs.

    'Never' is a good frequency for shrinking logs.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: MSDB Log HUGE and growing, cannot shrink

    If your DB is in full recovery and you're not doing log backups, either put the DB into simple recovery model or start taking log backups. If you don't do...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: log shipping bandwith estimation and backup size estimation

    Giova (1/14/2015)


    I hate Oracle because of complexity, but in certain cases I hate sql server because of stupidity.

    There's nothing stupid about it.

    In simple recovery model you're telling SQL...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DB Shrink post mortem - file sizes and freespace

    It's critical in TempDB to spread out the allocation of tables across the files and hence reduce the contention on the first set of allocation pages in the file. If...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Hello, Can you help me with this simple create table command?

    Grade IN ('A','B','c','D','E','F','G')

    etc

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: log shipping bandwith estimation and backup size estimation

    No, you can't use fn_dblog as in simple recovery model the log is truncated on every checkpoint, so every couple minutes.

    Best thing, prior to implementing log shipping, switch the DBs...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DBCC CHECKDB on a very big database.

    Ok, that's pretty big.

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/checkdb-from-every-angle-consistency-checking-options-for-a-vldb/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: "Best Practices" Questions

    If it wasn't January, I'd be wondering if this was a mis-scheduled April Fools joke. Seriously, whoever crafted those 'recommendations' should probably not be allowed anywhere near a database server,

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Page Life Expectancy

    Page IO latch is indicative of IO activity, as Grant mentioned but PageLatch isn't. Depending on what kind and what resource it could, if high enough, be indicating allocation contention...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: get table size and row count

    sivakumar.thangavel (1/14/2015)


    any scripts available or not?

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=polite

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DB Shrink post mortem - file sizes and freespace

    JarJar (1/14/2015)


    it's my understanding that data is striped across the files of a filegroup using a proportional fill algorithm, so if one file is larger than the others it gets...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: DB Shrink post mortem - file sizes and freespace

    It's TempDB where the files MUST be the same size. For user databases isn't not particuarly critical.

    It is a bit odd to see 8 files in the primary filegroup though....

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Row index and Row number

    What?

    Your example above created a column with identity, so why are you asking how to create a column with identity?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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