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  • RE: Database data files

    IgorMi (5/20/2013)


    I have a database with a single file which size is 288GB.

    I'm dropping the indexes and the data is only 90GB. I added three more files and re-created...

    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: Server Configurations - SQL 2008 R2

    I hope the book didn't say RAID 0, because that's something you never want to use for a database.

    IO throughput is a function of the number of spindles you have...

    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: tempdb getting full

    Identify what is using lots of TempDB via the task_space_usage and session_space_usage DMVs, tune the offending queries to use less TempDB space.

    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: performance in sql server

    Probably neither. Cursors should be avoided wherever possible, and I don't see a reason for a temp table here.

    You just want to delete the data relating to Project P1? If...

    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: Server Configurations - SQL 2008 R2

    That's a very low number of drives for each RAID array. Low usage DB I presume, since they are pretty small...

    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 Version on Production Server

    Take a look at these

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/more-businesses-than-you-think-are-on-the-cutting-edge/

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/more-businesses-than-you-think-are-still-using-sql-server-2000/

    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: Interview Questions i am not able to answer

    Eugene Elutin (5/17/2013)


    5. does sql starts if model database is corrupted. if so how to bring it to normal operation.

    I don't think so. It's model database for all databases...

    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: Interview Questions i am not able to answer

    m.rajesh.uk (5/17/2013)


    5. does sql starts if model database is corrupted. if so how to bring it to normal operation.

    http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/backup-and-recovery/the-sql-server-instance-that-will-not-start/

    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: How Maintenance Plans are a Big Plus for SQL Server Administration

    About the only thing I use Maint plans for is backups and CheckDB and even for backups they're not ideal as you can't set some options on the backups (like...

    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: open tranaction

    A transaction that's been started (via BEGIN TRANSACTION or by running a data modification) that has not yet been committed or rolled back (via COMMIT TRANSACTION/ROLLBACK TRANSACTION or by the...

    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: Order of joins - Which one is better?

    Doesn't matter.

    SQL is a declarative language, you tell SQL what you want and it figures out how to get that. Part of that figuring out is picking a good...

    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: Cannot Kill Process stays in KILLED/ROLLBACK status

    SQL error log. Recovery process is logged in there

    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: Conversion varchar value overflowed an int column in sql server

    Ow, that trigger is nasty.

    Yes, the declaration of ID as int in the trigger is the cause of the update error. Change it to match the table and the updates...

    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: Profiler Questions

    Please note: 8 year old thread.

    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: Newbie Question

    Please note: 9 year old thread. Also, neither SSIS nor SSRS exist in SQL 2000, they're in 2005 and onwards

    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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