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  • RE: Determining Memory Pressure

    Jeff Moden - Thursday, September 14, 2017 6:52 AM

     It doesn't do pre-allocation except for the relatively low amount that the instance...

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  • RE: Changing password of sa account and / or disabling the sa account -> SQL agent jobs

    For me that's one reason to have sa as the DB owner. So that I won't have any cases where logins have more rights than their assigned permissions state.

    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: Changing password of sa account and / or disabling the sa account -> SQL agent jobs

    Ownership doesn't require logging in. It's just about what security principal is associated with the job (or DB, or other things that can be owned)

    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: Determining Memory Pressure

    Jeff Moden - Wednesday, September 13, 2017 6:33 AM

    SQL Server will do its damnedest to pre-allocate all of the memory that...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Suspect production database

    coolchaitu - Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00 AM

    I read the article you posted. But, I am unable to come to a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Suspect production database

    Have you tried?

    Or tried a search? https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/disaster-recovery-101-backing-up-the-tail-of-the-log/

    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: Suspect production database

    Restore from backups (full + log should get you back up with no data loss)

    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: Reg : CPU utilization in server

    Is this a virtual machine, or physical?

    If it's virtual,  then you can assign fewer cores to it in the VM configuration.
    If it's physical though, short of removing...

    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: Insert Failed but Stored Procedure Continued

    You can have error handling and transactions to roll back partial operations and still have it email 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

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  • RE: Server PLE ? Low or high

    There's no magic value for PLE that's good.

    In general, you want it as high as possible. Consider that it's a measure of how much churn there is in...

    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: Moving db files of transaction replication subscriber(Pull)

    Use the ALTER DATABASE ... MODIFY FILE option for moving the files, and note that once you take the DB offline you need to move the files manually, SQL won't...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Shink file VS Resize

    Michael_O - Thursday, September 7, 2017 9:57 AM

    What i need help with at this time is understanding the difference between shrink and...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Insert Failed but Stored Procedure Continued

    Yup. Normal behaviour. Most errors terminate the statement, not the batch.

    If that's not what you want, you need some error handling, and probably some transactions.
    http://www.sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2011/05/17/on-transactions-errors-and-rollbacks/

    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 error while pushing data from distributer

    FROM tblFund_Transaction FT (INDEX = indFundTxn_DateCommitted)

    In both places where that appears, you need a WITH added (or, probably better to take the index hint out)

    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: DBCC Consistency Check impacts...

    It's got to read every single page in that 700GB database, and do a bunch of checks to make sure all the pages are correct, all the DB structures are...

    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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