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  • RE: Adding an extra file to TEMPDB

    You can add the new file on the D drive, you have allocation contention, not IO contention (unless there are additional problems you haven't mentioned.

    If TempDB is growing to 1.5...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: adding an extra tempdb file sql2008

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1424621-146-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Index Consolidation

    Are the lookups a problem?

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  • RE: Index Consolidation

    Some details on index column ordering

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/01/19/index-columns-selectivity-and-equality-predicates/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Index Consolidation

    They can be, but the resultant index will be less efficient for queries that filter on anything other than A, B than the individual indexes would have been.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Table Partitioning

    Or switch them into a partioned archive table and maybe merge the partitions.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: abrupt SQL Server restarts

    Benki Chendu (2/27/2013)


    Do you have any idea on this? Would a service pack upgrade help here?

    No idea whatsoever. Call MS support and open a case with them (yes, there is...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Table Partitioning

    The entire point of partitioning is ease of archiving and easier maintenance. It's not a performance tuning technique.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Load Encrypted Column Data..............

    What's the point of encrypting? Who are you trying to protect the data against?

    Look at the SQL functions EncryptByKey and EncryptByCert

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: TempDB optimization

    http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/A-SQL-Server-DBA-myth-a-day-%281230%29-tempdb-should-always-have-one-data-file-per-processor-core.aspx

    http://technet.microsoft.com/library/Cc966545

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/category/tempdb/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: abrupt SQL Server restarts

    If you need urgent help on a rather odd problem, open a case with Microsoft support.

    We're all volunteers here, we post in our spare time.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: 70-461

    700.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: LDF is IDF instead

    Perry Whittle (2/27/2013)


    GilaMonster (2/26/2013)


    You could call the transaction log file readme.txt if you wanted

    I bet someone, somewhere in the world has too 🙂

    For the sake of playing around, I once...

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  • RE: unexplained lock escalation - please help!

    aviadavi (2/27/2013)


    what shall I try now?

    What Lynn suggested right at the beginning.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Low Performance - High CPU Problem and others...

    http://www.simple-talk.com/books/sql-books/troubleshooting-sql-server-a-guide-for-the-accidental-dba/ Chapter 3.

    Gail Shaw
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