If this is a one-time shrink after a major data clean up, it should be fine. You just want to avoid a situation where you're growing then shrinking the database...

Snapshot isolation is great when you have a mix of exclusive locks and shared locks because it isolates them from each other. But this is a mix of exclusive locks....

Blocked processes or resource contention on that one database. That's all it takes.

I'm pretty sure disabling them in this case won't speed things along. Shrink is at a lower level and having the indexes in place is just another set of pages...

Instead of trying to write your own script, I'd suggest using one that's already written. Michelle Ufford's script is available[/url] and works quite well. You can schedule it to run...

Not per se. I have a general suggestion to bump it to 35. You can get more specific and query the plans in cache to get overall costs and then...

I think SQLBuddy hit the most important point. Backup all the indexes as scripts first. Dropping or adding an index is a pretty trivial event, but knowing exactly which index...

I'd start by identifying what is holding the lock and why it's holding it. That would be priority one. Is it an uncommitted transaction? Can you commit it? Do you...

The query above can do that. You just have to filter by the name if that's what you want.

CK2 (3/17/2014)

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rraza (3/15/2014)

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Can anyoine answer this interview question Please??

A DBA accidentally dropped a critical highly transactional table in production. Walk me through the exact procedure to restore it without taking...

It sounds like your SQL Agent service is offline. First, I'd attempt to restart it. Was it ever online? If so, have you recently made changes to the security settings...

Are you seeing performance issues? Have you determined that these issues are directly related to the fragmentation of the indexes? If the answer to both these is yes, then you...

That sounds like dirty data. The single best solution is to clean the data at it's source. The functions that you ran on the columns will prevent index use making...

For insert operations, frequently disabling the indexes is a good idea.

If there's a failure, no, the indexes won't automatically reenable. You'll need to make sure you have something in place...

Joy Smith San (3/15/2014)

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Gile,

Suppose an...