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  • RE: Reduce Logical reads

    Reducing the logical reads involves tuning indexes and query. That's about all that can be said without further information.

    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: Max server memory

    See Chapter 4 of http://www.red-gate.com/community/books/accidental-dba for a lot of discussion of memory and some guidelines around the setting of this value.

    The setting takes effect immediately, no restart is required.

    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 (2/19/2014)


    SQLRNNR (2/19/2014)


    rodjkidd (2/19/2014)


    Koen just say you are a Holistic SQL Server Consultant - you'll be fine then 😀

    Rodders...

    Just wondering if a holistic consultant does spinal adjustments??:cool:

    Jason, not sure about...

    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: mdf / ndf backup confusion

    A Full database backup is just that, a backup of the full database, all data files.

    When restoring, unless you need to move the files to a new location 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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Welcome to page 2150 🙂

    It's not necessarily the easy questions that we moan about. It's the ones with no thought or no research or the ones that are unreadable or...

    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: One table using far more space than its data

    Can you run a select on the table, get the DATA_LENGTH of each of the lob columns and order by the sum of all those columns data lengths desc? Let'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 2008 R2 - CXpacket wait type

    Are all the distincts really necessary? Is the Union necessary or will union all work?

    Personally I prefer creating clustered index on a temp table before putting data into it...

    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: READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT and ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION otions

    Though not without analysis first including some work to ensure TempDB can handle the additional load.

    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: Clustered Index SEEK as the highest cost in a query plan

    Firstly, is the cost a problem? Large is not necessarily a problem as the percentages within a plan have to add to 100%

    You'll never see a key lookup caused by...

    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: Does a ROWLOCK lock the whole index

    From Books Online (under ALTER INDEX)

    Table locks are applied for the duration of the index operation. An offline index operation that creates, rebuilds, or drops a clustered, spatial, or XML...

    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: One table using far more space than its data

    Ooh, that's a lot of LOB columns.

    Maybe an index reorganise with LOB_Compaction on?

    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: Does a ROWLOCK lock the whole index

    RowLock takes locks at the row level. It won't prevent lock escalation, but it will start the locks at the row level.

    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: One table using far more space than its data

    The table is a heap?

    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: READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT and ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION otions

    You can set them after installation, not during. They're both database level settings.

    to be honest, I don't see much point in having them both on, usually one would pick one...

    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: Dumb interview answers

    A candidate who described himself as a database performance and recovery specialist.

    Me: You get alerts that a critical database is not available and when you look in Management Studio 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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