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  • RE: sql server 2012 memory limit

    That's not a new limit. SQL 2008 R2 standard edition only supported 64GB of memory.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Batch Request/Sec Bottleneck? How do you know?

    Baseline measurements are essential for any form of performance monitoring. If you don't know what normal is, how can you identify abnormal?

    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: Mistery never ending query

    Did you check for blocking? Did you check what wait type the query is getting? Did you check for any messages in the error log?

    It probably isn't a stats issue...

    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: Batch Request/Sec Bottleneck? How do you know?

    It's not about what's a good batch requests/sec. It's about what's a normal batch requests/sec for your server.

    If normal for your server at a particular time of day is 1000...

    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?

    Brandie Tarvin (6/4/2013)


    Please 'splain?

    It's referring to the number base.

    dec 25, 25 in decimal, ie base 10. 2x10+5

    oct 31, 31 in octal, ie base 8. 3x8+1

    They're the same number. In base...

    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 (6/4/2013)


    How do you answer it?

    "What would happen to your business if you lost the entire server room right now? Do you want to gamble the business and everyone's job...

    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: SID and PID

    btw, if I was asked the meaning of some obscure column in a system table in an interview, my answer would be 'if I need to know that, I'll look...

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

    kapil_kk (6/4/2013)


    But I just want to clear doubt that if a single column contain 2 different values in two different rows then how AND works in that condition... why...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: SQL Error Log AWE not enabled

    Ells (6/4/2013)


    Spotted this in SQL ERROR log

    "SQL Server is not configured to use all of the available system memory. To enable SQL Server to use more memory, set the awe...

    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: SID and PID

    m.rajesh.uk (6/4/2013)


    Asked in the interview Gail.

    Then not enough context to answer. I would have asked the interviewer to clarify his question. They're probably identifiers, but what they're identifying depends 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: system databases crruption

    HanShi (6/4/2013)


    Without a backup you'll need to re-install SQL

    Rebuilding the system databases is enough, reinstall would be a waste of time.

    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: SID and PID

    In what context? As seen where?

    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: system databases crruption

    Well, if you don't have backups of the system databases, someone's not doing their job.

    If you happen to end up in that situation, then update your resume, rebuild the system...

    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 Query

    Ed Wagner (6/3/2013)


    I've actually used this tactic in conducting interviews. I felt that some people were trying to bluff their way through the technical portion of the interview so...

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

    hb21l6 (6/3/2013)


    I thought AFTER INSERT meant that the code ran after it had been inserted, clearly its not the case 😀

    That's exactly what it means. After the insert has run...

    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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