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Using the DMVs in that manner is fine. You just need to know, and be aware, that they only reflect what is in cache when you run them. If stuff...
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March 14, 2011 at 7:19 am
Pay no attention to the Luddite. 😀
I've been using Tweetdeck for a quite a while on both my PC and my Droid. I tried it on the iPad, but it...
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March 14, 2011 at 6:49 am
It looks like you've got the basics well covered. One thing I would add for sure is the ability to capture wait states on the servers. You're going to want...
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March 14, 2011 at 6:45 am
Lynn already answered. It depends on the data involved and the fill factor on your indexes. simply a count of rows and columns doesn't tell us anything. You can have...
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March 14, 2011 at 6:40 am
You might want to take a look at the book "Beginning SQL Server 2008 Administration." I wrote the chapters on backup, restore, and performance tuning. It covers everything in SQL...
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March 14, 2011 at 6:37 am
If the most frequently used columns to retrieve the data is all three that you listed, that might make a better choice for the clustered index. Testing is the key...
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March 14, 2011 at 6:31 am
If the goal is to identify which servers or databases have a failed backup, instead of running reports, I'd suggest taking a look at setting up Policy Based Management. You...
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March 14, 2011 at 5:35 am
musa 84273 (3/14/2011)
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March 14, 2011 at 5:32 am
The message is pretty clear. Something is holding a lock on that file.
I used to get that at my old job when the process that copied our backups off to...
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March 13, 2011 at 11:32 am
On the performance end, follow Jeff's advice. I usually do. On the coding side, you can tell just looking at it that the parameter sizes are based on the values,...
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March 13, 2011 at 5:41 am
I'm misunderstanding what you're asking for here. Do you want a script that performs backups or do you want a script that reports on what backups have been completed?
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March 12, 2011 at 4:54 am
Indianrock (3/11/2011)
Yes the developers use an ORM to generate most of the sql. C# .net
so you need to attack this from two fronts. Yes, you need to work...
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March 12, 2011 at 4:30 am
GilaMonster (3/12/2011)
Anyone got any suggestions for here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1077027-392-1.aspx
took a stab at it.
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March 12, 2011 at 4:21 am
Is that column a char or a varchar?
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March 12, 2011 at 4:21 am
Indianrock (3/11/2011)
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March 11, 2011 at 2:53 pm
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