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  • RE: Will Backup with compression help defragment the database?

    Backups have nothing to do with index fragmentation. Backups don't care about fragmentation, they don't try to decipher any of the pages. All a backup does is copy data from...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Parallelism

    Is the hardware identical?

    Are the server settings identical?

    Is the data identical?

    Are statistics up to date on both servers?

    No to any of those could be the reason for the difference.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Restore succeeded but Data is different?? What? Is this possible?

    Either the backup was damaged in the copy and hadn't been taken WITH CHECKSUM or the IO subsystem corrupted the database during/after the restore.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Update an old database with a newer LDF

    Probably not. Got any backups?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Snapshot size is tooo large

    Minnu (1/29/2014)


    and the fule "Unify_snapshot.ss" size is showing 4GB.

    Where is it showing 4GB? What are you checking, looking at or running to get the size of the file?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: System database integrity check

    PearlJammer1 (1/29/2014)


    If these jobs where to 'overlap' each other, could that be the cause of the problem?

    No.

    Check that it's scheduled, check that the settings are correct, check that it's actually...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Snapshot size is tooo large

    A snapshot size cannot be larger than the database it's a snapshot of. Hence why I asked how you're checking size and what values you're looking at where.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (1/29/2014)


    GilaMonster (1/29/2014)


    Could use some of that chill down here. We had a couple of weeks of 35 C+ (high for JHB). Seriously unpleasant.

    That sounds seriously unpleasant - that's...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Snapshot size is tooo large

    How are you determining 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: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Could use some of that chill down here. We had a couple of weeks of 35 C+ (high for JHB). Seriously unpleasant.

    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: Avoid KeyLookup

    sivaramakrishnan G (1/29/2014)


    I am Getting Keylookup in Query on Execution Plan.How to avoid this.Due to this when ever i have use this take Query Plan showing Key lookup.

    Why do you...

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

    jsayerweb (1/29/2014)


    Fully tested... Again sorry 🙂

    Msg 8106, Level 16, State 1, Line 5

    Table 'ChildReferrals' does not have the identity property. Cannot perform SET operation.

    Msg 8106, Level 16, State 1, Line...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: datetime and condense

    philosophaie (1/29/2014)


    Is there something wrong with:

    CREATE PROCEDURE [IncMaxallcount] (@Latin INT) AS

    No. The error is, as the error message said, "Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'CONVERT'.", not near the keyword PROCEDURE

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: System database integrity check

    Have you opened up the job and looked at exactly what it does?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Condense the database to one line with the sum of the column

    Have you tried the code?

    If so, does it do what you expect?

    If not, what does it not do (or what error does it throw)?

    Edit: Duplicate thread, please rather continue at...

    Gail Shaw
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