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  • RE: assertions

    Please take the language and the random insults elsewhere, they have no place on a professional forum.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Read Committed Snapshot Isolation

    Vedran Kesegic (2/11/2013)


    No phantoms are possible, so it is a very good thing, and is on by default on most of my productions.

    Phantoms are indeed possible under read committed snapshot,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Log Shipping Simple question re: full backup involvement

    sotn (2/11/2013)


    The full backup at 10:00 contains transactions since the last full backup

    The full backup contains the complete state of the database at the time of backup, it's not a...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: logical consistency-based I/O error

    Looks like all errors were fixed. Now sort out your backup strategy.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Read Committed Snapshot Isolation

    Err... think about whether the first option is even feasible. Imagine a 2TB database with 100 transactions/sec....

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345124%28v=sql.90%29.aspx

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Microsoft Certified Master

    Geoff Clark (2/11/2013)


    But at the very least it is misleading, MCM SQL 2008 is top of the list of those that require the recertification.

    MCM (or what it's being converted...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Sql Server 2008 R2 takes more memory

    http://www.simple-talk.com/books/sql-books/troubleshooting-sql-server-a-guide-for-the-accidental-dba/ Chapter 4

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Sql Server 2008 R2 takes more memory

    Perfectly normal. SQL will use as much memory as it can, up to the configured max server memory. If SQL's using too much memory, drop max server memory slightly.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: What are best practices for setting transaction log size for tempdb?

    Rum a load test of your app, see how large TempDB gets. Set default size to slightly larger.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: T-SQL vs SQL differences

    meridius10 (2/10/2013)


    OK, so on my CV/resume, would I put T-SQL and SQL in the section for knowledge of programming languages or just T-SQL?

    If you came to me with that on...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Error 17836 simultaneous occurance on two separate instances

    Buggy network driver, something broken somewhere on the network or a hack attempt.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: UNION vs OR --> NP-Complete Problem

    SQL Kiwi (2/9/2013)


    The example was also carefully crafted to use a very small number of rows and unhelpful nonclustered indexes.

    I've seen a few articles on that SQL site like that,...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Joins

    May I suggest normalising the tables? As long as there are comma-delimited keys that's going to be hell to write queries against and will likely have horrid performance problems.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: How Check string of Boolean expression is return true or false

    I'd suggest doing that in application code, not database code. They're more designed for that kind of work.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Joins

    That is going to be incredibly inefficient. What are you trying to do there?

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