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  • RE: Why do i see writes in profiler trace when my query is only a select?

    TempDB.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: How to List All table Modified, altered, updated, inserted in sqlserver 2000 database Last N Days.

    davehegwood (9/19/2013)


    To get the Tables Altered, you can use

    SELECT name, create_date, modify_date

    FROM sys.objects

    WHERE modify_date >= GETDATE()-n

    Won't work on SQL 2000.

    3 year old...

    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: Sub partitions

    Partitioning isn't about performance anyway. It's about maintainability, fast loads, etc. You may need to change nonclustered indexes, or you may not. Can't tell without a lot more 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: Sub partitions

    Ah, no.

    That said, sounds like you might want to re-do the partitioning on the table and instead partition on date rather than supplier. Then you have your fast load 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: Sub partitions

    What do you mean by 'sub partitions'? What are you looking 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: Standby Database Reverting to Suspect

    Please note: 3 year old thread.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Can't we rely on execution plan for performance !!!

    IO stats from STATISTICS IO are correct, they're the actual number of reads done.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Having Problem in restoring transaction log backup

    Please note: 3 year old thread.

    The error in the OP is not one you get when the log chain has been broken. That case gets you an error either like...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Last executed queries

    It means they are ad-hoc queries, nothing more.

    Gail Shaw
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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (9/18/2013)


    GilaMonster (9/18/2013)


    L' Eomot Inversé (9/18/2013)


    Don't need to is surely an understatement: you are not allowed to, I think?

    If you mean the SELECT * INTO, unfortunately that's allowed. I've...

    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 does certification achieve?

    L' Eomot Inversé (9/18/2013)


    That's a nice example of utterly pointless knowledge that, if one needed it, could easily be looked up; and certanly isn't going to be needed often enough...

    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?

    L' Eomot Inversé (9/18/2013)


    Don't need to is surely an understatement: you are not allowed to, I think?

    If you mean the SELECT * INTO, unfortunately that's allowed. I've cleaned so many...

    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: Installing 64-bit SQL2005 Standard

    Yes, a new thread would have been better...

    The installation DVDs contain both x86 and x64 versions. If you downloaded an iso from MSDN, then depending on version, you may have...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Accidental DBA - Where to Start? (General Question)

    defyant_2004 (9/18/2013)


    What would be some of the first issues I should address as I take over the responsibility of these databases?

    Backups. Integrity Checks. Backups. Restores. Backups. Backups. Backups.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Export data from corrupted table

    SELECT <column list> FROM <damaged table> WHERE <clustered index key column> BETWEEN <some lower boundary that works> AND <some upper boundary that works>

    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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