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  • RE: Cost in Execution Plan summing up more than 100

    It's a bug in Management studio

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: intermittment slow data modification on sql 2008 r2

    If you're seeing mirroring-related waits, check the latency of the line to the mirror, make sure that nothing's wrong, check write throughput on the mirror's log drive. The state will...

    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: UPDATE Query gets stuck as a part of the procedure but completes fine when run independently

    Can you post the procedure?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Memory settings in SQL SERVER

    durai nagarajan (9/3/2013)


    But why not they check OS Memory before accepting it?

    Why should it?

    How does SQL know that I'm not setting max server memory higher then going home while the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Memory settings in SQL SERVER

    santhosh411 (9/3/2013)


    Is any issues with performance and if my SQL server is running state and configured SQL with min5GB and Max 6GB and the windows team suddenly decreed OS...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Memory settings in SQL SERVER

    Why wouldn't it accept the value?

    If you check books online, max server memory must be a value between 16 and 2147483647, min server memory must be a value between 0...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: UNION or UNION ALL?

    Depends which gives the expected results. The choice of the two is not a performance consideration, it's a correctness consideration.

    Union - combine the two resultsets and remove duplicates.

    Union all -...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Primary Key and Clustered Index: how to set in this example?

    Primary key is not decided by a query. It's part of the design process of the table. It's a column or set of columns that uniquely (with no nulls) identifies...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Updating using # table

    Please post table definition, index definitions and execution plan as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/. Tuning is seldom about removing portions of a query.

    Also ditch the nolocks, unless the users know and accept...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Memory settings in SQL SERVER

    Since SQL will never be able to reach 5GB (and hence the min server memory setting will never take effect), nothing different to the default setting (where max server memory...

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

    iirc he also wrote a chapter in one of the MVP Deep Dives on the subject.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: sql server using more memory issue

    Err... the second line of my post....

    As for why SQL's using the memory, because it can. Because it has not been told that it can't (via max server memory). Set...

    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: Question related to missing index DMV's ?

    Shadab Shah (9/2/2013)


    So you are telling me that this missing index dmv's are useless :w00t:.

    No. I didn't say they're useless. I said they're a place to start.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (9/2/2013)


    Pins and needles seeing the strike-through on your MCM in the signature.

    I'll remove the strikeout in a week or two. Just making a point.

    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: it's a bug?

    No idea. Maybe. Possibly not.

    Ignore fragmentation on very small indexes. It's meaningless on very small indexes (which are the ones that usually show this kind of behaviour)

    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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