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  • RE: Microsoft DBA path

    http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-sql-server.aspx

    2008 or 2012, up to you. If you work mostly with 2008, get the 2008 cert. If you work mostly with SQL 2012, get the 2012 cert

    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: Encryption noob with a table design general question

    Since you'd only decrypt and fetch the columns when you need to decrypt then, no it doesn't make any sense to do that.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: High page splits/sec

    Page splits are caused by inserts into the middle of indexes and updates that grow the row, nothing else. They're internal to SQL.

    As for thresholds, take them with a grain...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: problems flattening off and then normalising

    Table definition and easily usable data would be a great help, but this may be a start...

    SELECT <stuff> FROM Policies p INNER JOIN PolicyDetails pd ON p.PolType = pd.PolType 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: What is table scan , table seek and Index scan , index seek

    Table scan - read of the entire table

    Table seek - no such thing

    Index scan - read of the entire index

    Index seek - search into an index for a specific value...

    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: High page splits/sec

    Sure, often a lot higher that what you have 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: Transposition Help

    Have a look in Books Online for the Unpivot keyword, that's what you're looking for here, probably followed by a Pivot.

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

    Depends on the IO subsystem, memory, CPU, concurrent connections, etc.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Adding comma separator to INT datatype

    Well, hopefully people will take my word for it...

    We used to use , as the decimal marker, but that practice stopped many years ago (while I was still at school)....

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Adding data & index file best pratices?

    Please ask new questions in a new thread. Thanks

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: PAGEIOLATCH_SH blocking

    Read less data (optimise queries), add memory, optimise the IO subsystem

    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: Help Re Indexing

    Vertigo44 (2/1/2013)


    Also, should I run DBCC INDEXDEFRAG after DBCC DBREINDEX completes?

    Not unless you like doing your index maintenance twice.

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

    PageIOLatch isn't a lock, it's a latch. Usually used when SQL is moving pages around from memory to disk or disk to memory. Probably you don't have enough cache memory...

    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: Log file growing on principal server--log backups scheduled every 2 hrs.

    Increase the frequency of your log backups.

    Why on earth would you try to shrink a full log? Full means no free space left in the log, surely that would suggest...

    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: regarding output of Set Statistics IO on

    I'd start by getting rid of the table variable. Any more advice than that will need the stuff Anthony asked for.

    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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