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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (6/13/2014)


    GilaMonster (6/13/2014)


    Thought process of last 10 minutes.

    - Tune a proc quick, then go home

    - Wait, it's got user defined functions

    - Wait, the UDFs have cursors

    -...

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I doubt anyone knows who the responsible party is. Tuning a client's system, one that's been developed by 'experts' and enhanced by everyone and their dog and has been around...

    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: Recent Posts - different icon for threads I've posted in

    That would be handy.

    Maybe bump this thread mid next month, as Steve's on vacation.

    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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Thought process of last 10 minutes.

    - Tune a proc quick, then go home

    - Wait, it's got user defined functions

    - Wait, the UDFs have cursors

    - I'm going...

    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: Server Performance Issue

    Server-side trace or extended events session

    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: EXISTS Subqueries: SELECT 1 vs. SELECT * (Database Weekly 11.02.2008)

    It will not.

    Please in future post new questions in a new thread. Thanks

    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 checkdb is running automatically at MS SQL 2012

    Ok, that really is something running CheckDB. From the username, looks like it might be coming from BackupExec. BackupExec may be doing a checkDB before each full backup, that could...

    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: Differential backup, massive size difference between 1st and 2nd backup

    Are you absolutely sure that something/someone didn't run a full backup between the two?

    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 checkdb is running automatically at MS SQL 2012

    adzuanamir (6/12/2014)


    Why "DBCC CHECKDB WITH physical_only executed" run across my instance for every database although i did not run in manually ? Is it by default a new feature that...

    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: For a DW, is it worth always recompiling all SP's after weekly index maintenance?

    No. Index maintenance will invalidate all plans anyway, they'll recompile on their next execution.

    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: Reduction Of Performance after migration SQL 2000 to SQL 2008

    StephenNL (6/12/2014)


    I am thinking about updating statistics regularly now.

    Don't just think about it. 😀

    The reason it helped here is that the 2005+ statistics have a different structure than the 2000...

    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: Where do I put my data

    In that case you need to analyse first whether you have IO bottlenecks. Pointless splitting files if you aren't bottlenecked on IO. You need to look for tables accessed together...

    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: While dropping the server login getting error

    Chowdary's (6/12/2014)


    Actually am having only one database ,In that the User is not there to drop at database level

    I said nothing about the login being a user in the 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: Sproc fails to return data to app after a couple of weeks

    There's a bunch of problems with that procedure. Start with these two blog posts:

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/03/19/catch-all-queries/

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2008/05/22/parameter-sniffing-pt-3/

    Fixing those two problems should help a lot.

    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: Ideal values for wait time in SQL server

    IT researcher (6/12/2014)


    The SQL server instance is used by employees in office. So it will be running only during office timings. So we keep the server OFF during night.

    Again,...

    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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