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  • RE: Trying to make my lookup table unique

    To be honest, that table looks like it needs normalising, looks like 3, maybe more tables in one.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Resolving a deadlock

    Switch traceflag 1222 on. That will result in a deadlock graph been written to the error log every time a deadlock occurs. Post the result of that graph here.

    DBCC TRACEON(1222,-1)

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Help with execution Plan

    One or both of the sales order tables has a computed column defined in it. That's your compute scalar.

    If you just select salesorderID and salesOrderDetailID you shouldn't see that...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Transaction log in Subscriber database for Transactional Replication

    Willem Tilstra-440027 (3/4/2013)


    Gail Shaw mentioned in another forum question while I was researching this, that 'Replication does not in any way use the Subscriber's log file'.

    Whoever said that should be...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Including additional columns in a unique clustered index

    dembones79 (3/4/2013)


    GilaMonster (3/4/2013)


    So 'keep the keys for a unique index to the columns that need to be enforced unique' is a 'rigid overly-simplistic rule'?

    Bear in mind that this is for...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Including additional columns in a unique clustered index

    ScottPletcher (3/4/2013)


    The discussion was on the clustered index, not unique indexes in general. A clus index key needn't be unique on its own, and sometimes that's just fine. ...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Including additional columns in a unique clustered index

    ScottPletcher (3/4/2013)


    Again, rigid overly-simplistic rules such as those will give you a poorly performing database with excessive nonclustered indexes to cover all the queries the clus index can't because its...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Including additional columns in a unique clustered index

    ScottPletcher (3/4/2013)


    GilaMonster (3/4/2013)


    dembones79 (3/4/2013)


    Should the region and district columns be included in the unique clustered index of the view?

    Bear in mind that a clustered index implicitly includes all the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: SQL SERVER database encryption.

    qur7 (3/4/2013)


    Hello All,

    I am in a bind here and hoping someone will be able to help me out in this regard.

    There is a database in our environment that is using...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Including additional columns in a unique clustered index

    dembones79 (3/4/2013)


    Should the region and district columns be included in the unique clustered index of the view?

    Bear in mind that a clustered index implicitly includes all the columns in...

    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

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Adding an extra file to TEMPDB

    ScottPletcher (3/4/2013)


    The ALTER command to try to change an existing file to a smaller size gives you an error on SQL 2005.

    That's when you're trying to reduce the initial size,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Adding an extra file to TEMPDB

    ScottPletcher (3/4/2013)


    GilaMonster (2/28/2013)


    stehoban (2/27/2013)


    Regarding point number 3 above. How to i reduce the size from 1.5gb to 800mb or 1gb ? Would this be by using the ALTER database command...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: does index also change the output?

    sqldba_newbie (3/4/2013)


    I think i found the root cause here. The query which we were using brings top 15 records in asc order based on a column which has NULL or...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How to uncommit the transaction and execute the next statement in the cursor?

    You've got no transactions in there, so every single statement is running in auto-commit, commit on completion. There's no 'uncommit' without explicit transactions.

    What are you trying to do here?

    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: An issue with my Execution plan

    Please post table definitions, index definitions and execution plan, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    As for the costs, they are estimates and are dependent on statistics and heuristics, they can be very far...

    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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