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  • RE: High Memory is 70% & growing Fast

    kshaileshbca (3/15/2014)


    Fist you have to check fragmentation level

    What's that got to do with memory?

    add lock pages in memory

    Um, no. That's not going to reduce memory usage, do you know what...

    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: cancling a rebuild clustered index

    A rollback takes as long or longer than the operation had until the point it was cancelled. You wait, because there's nothing else you can do.

    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?

    wolfkillj (3/14/2014)


    GilaMonster (3/14/2014)


    So what does it mean when I have things that I've said in people's signatures or on people's walls? :blush:

    It means that I'll gladly endorse you for Pithy...

    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: Impact of multiple user database files?

    The one database file per core recommendation is an outdated one for TempDB only. It's never been a recommendation for user databases and even for TempDB now it's 1/4-1/2 the...

    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: Reset memory cache for query tuning?

    Jeff Moden (3/13/2014)


    GilaMonster (3/13/2014)


    Jeff Moden (3/12/2014)


    Using "Statistics TIME, IO" will also be way off if there are any non iTVF functions in the mix.

    IO will be. Time, if you look...

    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?

    wolfkillj (3/14/2014)


    wolfkillj (3/13/2014)


    GilaMonster (3/11/2014)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/11/2014)


    Grant Fritchey (3/11/2014)


    By the gods, people get hung up on the weirdest darned things. They can focus like a laser on stuff that's just 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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    rodjkidd (3/14/2014)


    I know a few people with "Endorsing on LinkedIn" as a skill. I've endorsed a couple of them as well. Sadly I don;t think their joke quite hit the...

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

    New Born DBA (3/14/2014)


    In this case let's say the DB goes down at 1:55, how do we restore it to the point in time recovery? What's the procedure?

    Depends on the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: checkdb - error but no issue?

    hada79 (3/14/2014)


    I am guessing it is a matter of time before the application (Citrix provisioning server) accesses the bad page and freaks out, but will the problem get worse?

    Corruption won't...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: checkdb - error but no issue?

    Bijoy.Kaiprath (3/14/2014)


    try executing dbcc with allow data loss

    NO! NO! NO! (not that it will do a damned thing in this case)

    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: checkdb - error but no issue?

    Corrupt page in a system table. This is not good news. There may well be more corruption, we just don't know.

    Can you restore your latest backup somewhere else and run...

    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 need to delete 20 million rows from a table...

    Eric M Russell (3/14/2014)


    Well, if it took only 1/2 second to delete 20 million rows, then he's lucky. That's not typical; almost to the point of disbelief.

    TRUNCATE TABLE

    It doesn't process...

    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: Restore filegroup from one db to another in sql

    Cannot be done.

    Filegroups cannot move from one database to another.

    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: Records suddenly disappear from fn_dblog in SQL Server 2008

    Trigger/CDC is indeed a good idea. Write a script to auto-create the triggers on all the necessary tables, not that hard to do.

    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 need to delete 20 million rows from a table...

    Siberian Khatru (3/14/2014)


    For me, the keys were not needing to worry about getting all of the rows back, plus the minimal logging aspect.

    Well....

    Both delete and truncate can be rolled...

    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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