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Oh, and yes, you should have a clustered index on most of your tables (most being 99.9999999999%) or have a very good reason why not, with testing and good documentation....
September 8, 2009 at 6:57 am
All the testing I've done with GUID's as a clustered index have shown some serious performance problems. The one thing that alleviates this somewhat is to use the SEQUENTIALID mechanism....
September 8, 2009 at 6:56 am
Yes = Laptop, Desktop, Books, Drivers License
No = everything else.
How on earth do you function as a DBA, let alone post on SSC without a desktop or a laptop? You...
September 8, 2009 at 6:40 am
Andrew Watson (9/7/2009)
When faced with a problem like this, my brain automatically went into "performance problem" mode, and since these generally occur with big datasets, I...
September 7, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Paul White (9/7/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/7/2009)
September 7, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Paul White (9/6/2009)
September 7, 2009 at 6:30 am
When you say it failed to update, do you mean that it returned an error or that the query ran fine, but no data was updated?
There has to be an...
September 6, 2009 at 5:53 am
crainlee2 (9/5/2009)
I don't think so. I'm running DTA as a server and dba admin with authority to do anything so I don't think that's it but thanks for asking about...
September 6, 2009 at 5:48 am
And just to add to that a bit, shrinking the database is not a method for optimizing performance. It's a little shocking that a vendor is recommending this as a...
September 5, 2009 at 6:17 am
Excellent post sudhanva. Very well summarized. I agree, there are few, if any situations where stored procedures should not be used.
Unfortunately, I need to point out one issue:
sudhanva (9/5/2009)
Not to...
September 5, 2009 at 6:12 am
Every time I use the DTA I'm impressed by what it misses. Yes, you could try making adjustments to the template and you will get more suggestions, not necessarily good...
September 5, 2009 at 5:58 am
AllenMWhite (9/4/2009)
September 4, 2009 at 11:22 am
AllenMWhite (9/4/2009)
http://blogs.msdn.com/mwories/archive/2008/06/14/SQL2008_5F00_Powershell.aspx
Copy out the script in that post. Once you've executed that, you've got the SQL 2008 dlls and...
September 4, 2009 at 11:18 am
AllenMWhite (9/4/2009)
You can install PowerShell 1.0 on any Windows...
September 4, 2009 at 11:03 am
Hey Allen. Great presentation the other day.
So, what about just installing Powershell on a 2000/2005 server, or what if the 2000/2005 is running on a 2008 Server machine? Can you...
September 4, 2009 at 10:46 am
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