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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Fal (8/22/2013)


    Speaking of fruit. The missus and I are getting a new kitchen in and are trying to finalise a few issues.

    We were thinking of getting a stone benchtop,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Performance IO issue

    https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/

    https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Failover 10,000 databases?

    HanShi (8/22/2013)


    and perform a consistency check on the databses.

    There is no consistency check performed at startup or automatically at any other time. The only time SQL performs a consistency check...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Failover 10,000 databases?

    Jason.Reeves (8/22/2013)


    Do a alter database or detach/reattach and move all the inactive or offline databases to a disk not part of the cluster.

    A clustered SQL Server's database files must always...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Failover 10,000 databases?

    If those inactive databases are never used, you can take them offline. If they're offline, SQL won't open or recover them on startup.

    Still, with thousands of databases you're looking at...

    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: Physical placement of a row of a table on disk: Is column ORDINAL_POSITION the same as column physical position?

    Ordinal position is the position within the create table statement and in the metadata, hence the default position when doing a select *. That's it. It has no bearing on...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: database page level corruptions?

    Log backups as well?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: database page level corruptions?

    Is once a month often enough? Do you retain all your backups (full and log for month)? If not, what do you plan to do if the CheckDB picks up...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Corrupt Database

    Restore from a clean backup. That's not repairable.

    If you have an unbroken log chain from the clean backup then you won't lose any data (you can take a tail-log backup...

    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 Partitioning

    What are you partitioning for? What's the goal?

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: database page level corruptions?

    Backups do not automatically fail. You have to explicitly add the option to the backup statement to check the checksums. Maintenance plans don't allow that option and most people don't...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Doubts about dbcc shrinkfile working

    Having 10MB as the target number does not mean that the log will shrink to 10MB, only that 10MB is the minimum. If say the log has 25MB of log...

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

    First problem there, the database snapshot for CheckDB can't be created. Is that an NTFS drive, does the SQL Server service account have full permissions to the folder with the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: RAID Caching and SQL Server 2008 R2

    Sounds right, but check with a sysadmin.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: database page level corruptions?

    ananda.murugesan (8/21/2013)


    Can we kept CHECKSUM option in database Instead checking every week DBCC CHECKDB?

    No.

    Well, you can do it, but it will give you absolutely no knowledge about whether the database...

    Gail Shaw
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