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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Eirikur Eiriksson (7/26/2014)


    The good thing about SSC is that when I make blunders I am immediately told off:pinch:

    :Whistling:

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: TDE and Page/Row level compression

    Before you apply compression to everything, test and make sure that the CPU overhead is acceptable. On page compression it can get nasty. Also don't compress indexes unless you expect...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: TDE and Page/Row level compression

    Eirikur Eiriksson (7/26/2014)


    First of all you will not see much of a benefit because of the nature of the encrypted data, there will be some but not huge.

    Not so.

    True...

    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: Primary key violation error when I'm not violating the primary key

    If you're getting that error, you're either trying to insert a row that already exists or there are duplicates in the set you're inserting. There's no other reasons you'd be...

    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: Policy Based Management - Enabling Transaction Logs

    swoozie (7/25/2014)


    Basically I think that For Every fail, i.e., db that doesn not have a log file that I need to have a Log file created.

    But you can't have...

    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: How many tests do I need for 2012 after I get my MCITP

    quackhandle1975 (7/25/2014)


    Edit: I would have thought 459 would have been the most challenging exam being the "Expert" one.

    None of them are 'expert' level. Not even close.

    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: Corruption on Database: type LOB data

    Is the full backup you used clean? When did you last successfully run CheckDB?

    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: TDE and Page-Level Compression

    Please post new questions in a new thread.

    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: Sub Query

    robert.diley (7/25/2014)


    I was a D fan myself.

    Then I looked at the query plan for the example in the TechNet article at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187638(v=sql.105).aspx. What it shows (at least in my...

    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: Database is in Recovery Pending Status

    Since he didn't post anything useful (error messages, status), no idea. Maybe he freed up space on the wrong drive, maybe there was a secondary problem....

    Point is, a suspect database...

    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: Database is in Recovery Pending Status

    Draconian (7/24/2014)


    That was confusing. On the Database list it was showing Recovery Pendig. When I checked status it was in suspect mode.

    SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX (N'<dbName>', N'STATUS');

    I made enough space on server...

    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: I'm totally new. Need some guide on SQL 2012

    kimmedim (7/23/2014)


    By the way, maybe the 70-461 certification is a long shot for a newbie as myself?

    To be blunt, yes. The exam's intended candidates are DBAs/database developers with 2+...

    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: Backup on shared drive failing

    Benki Chendu (7/24/2014)


    I am trying to take a backup of a database on Inst3 to a disk not mapped to the instance in the cluster.

    And that (the bolded part) is...

    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: Backup Testing

    whitesql (7/24/2014)


    Should I test my backup every time it finishes?

    Yes.

    Until you've tested it, you don't know whether it's restorable. It should not be a manual process (and so lack 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

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  • RE: Database is in Recovery Pending Status

    Draconian (7/24/2014)


    My Production database is in Recovery pending status. I checked and found due to Hard disk space it went into suspect mode.

    Suspect or Recovery_Pending? They're two very different statuses....

    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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