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  • RE: Working with large database tables

    Jeff Moden (5/25/2014)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (5/24/2014)


    Must say that I'm slightly puzzled. I have read my post over and over but I cannot find neither any implicit nor explicit suggestions of ignoring...

    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: Indexes

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68439/

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68563/

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68636/

    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: DTA & Statistics

    DO NOT create everything DTA suggests. Test the recommendations one by one, consider implementing any that help, ignore the rest.

    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?

    And the article on premature optimisation submitted. I may need to take leave the day it's published, so that I have time to reply to all the nasty comments 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: What are you worth?

    Doctor Who 2 (5/24/2014)


    SQLRNNR (5/21/2014)


    Aeterna (5/19/2014)


    I'd also suggest going over the contract in detail and be prepared to reject any job offer if you don't like the contractual terms. Companies...

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

    I usually change select into into a create table .... insert when tuning procedures, partially so I have the option of creating a clustered index, partially so I can keep...

    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: Working with large database tables

    To be honest, 10 million rows isn't particularly large. That's about what I put into tables when I'm doing query testing to get a good, but not huge, load.

    Write your...

    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?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/23/2014)


    GilaMonster (5/23/2014)


    Steve, can anything be done about shrills like this:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1573887.aspx

    He's posting on thread after thread on damaged DBs, missing backups, etc, usually talking garbage and...

    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: Working with large database tables

    Eirikur Eiriksson (5/23/2014)


    Start by getting something working, test it against the requirements and improve if needed. This way, you can hopefully avoid another pitfall which is premature optimization.

    Doing a...

    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: Removing not necessary joins

    Eugene Elutin (5/23/2014)


    ... SQL Server doesn't really support code reuse in a useful way...

    I would say that it's very arguable statement...

    😉

    I'd take Grant's side in any such argument.

    In general, it's...

    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: SQL Server Max Memory Verus Actual Usage

    1) Don't use task manager/resource monitor to check SQL's memory

    2) The max server memory sets the buffer pool. SQL additionally uses a small amount of non-buffer memory for thread stacks,...

    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: Corrupt?? Or what is going on

    If you run RESTORE HEADERONLY on the backup file, what is the result?

    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?

    SQLRNNR (5/23/2014)


    GilaMonster (5/23/2014)


    Steve, can anything be done about shrills like this:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1573887.aspx

    He's posting on thread after thread on damaged DBs, missing backups, etc, usually talking garbage and with links to 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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • RE: Corrupt?? Or what is going on

    In that case, did you or someone else enable compression on the backups?

    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: Removing not necessary joins

    The SQL parser/algebriser removes unnecessary tables from queries (unnecessary being ones which don't filter and don't return columns)

    Are you sure that's what's causing the performance problems?

    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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