It depends on how your virtual environment is set up and managed. Many of them use physical storage, not virtual storage. In fact, a pretty hefty percentage are set up...

Alvin Ramard (12/10/2014)

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Koen Verbeeck (12/10/2014)

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Grant Fritchey (12/10/2014)

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Weirdest thing, my subscription to The Thread got turned off. I just figured after a couple of weeks you guys had finally given up...

OK. That certainly makes more sense now. Yeah, I'd go with a derived table of some kind (doesn't have to be a CTE, but no reason not to) to get...

Other than to allow for the use of the MAX field, why are you grouping this data anyway? From the example, you're running no other aggregations.

Without seeing the plans, I'm speculating. But, if the data sets are radically different between the two servers, that might explain it. If the cost threshold for parallelism is different....

JoshDBGuy (12/10/2014)

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Grant Fritchey (12/10/2014)

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Small company or not, I strongly recommend putting process for getting stuff out to production into place and following it religiously. The last thing you want are...

Weirdest thing, my subscription to The Thread got turned off. I just figured after a couple of weeks you guys had finally given up on this thing.

Yep. Tell them to stop. Unless of course they're also responsible for running the restores. In which case, check to see if they're running differentials and log backups and have...

That's an indication of disk load. Not necessarily an indication of problems in...

That does sound like either permissions issues, serious blocking issues, or maybe a combination of the two. I have seen the first error message before. It was on a system...

It depends on how you're getting it. If you have a deadlock graph that you've captured through extended events, or somewhere else, right click on it as you would an...

And you can pull that plan from the cache, even while the query is running. It will be in sys.dm_exec_query_plan(). You'll need to pass it a plan handle. If the...

Small company or not, I strongly recommend putting process for getting stuff out to production into place and following it religiously. The last thing you want are for changes to...

Yeah, I'd get the Upgrade Advisor from Microsoft and run that against your systems. That will give you the most important information, anything you have in your 2008 systems that...

DSNOSPAM (12/9/2014)

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I guess it also goes against all my reflexes for other programming languages, which is to break a problem down into logical components.

SS seems to throw other constrictions in...