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  • RE: SSD Drive

    since the correct final answer is impossible to say without IOPS, brand specs, etc. I'll say

    Tempdb on ssd.

    There.

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  • RE: SSD Drive

    20 seems high, but your real issue is the scans (as you already know).

    Are the indexes and stats being created, maintained, reviewed and altered as appropriate?

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  • RE: SSD Drive

    It totally depends on the IOPS of each storage, and your performance testing.

    Have you allocated files properly for tempdb, etc?

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  • RE: Help for SQL begginer

    FWIW, if its a backup, it will typically end with .bak extension. For databases files, you will generally see an .mdf and an .ldf file for basic...

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  • RE: Huge regression after upgrading from 2014 to 2016

    Can't speak to your issue directly, but a number of different sessions at PASS Summit this year pointed out that changing the compat level from 120 to 130 (or the...

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  • RE: script to find if SSRS / SSIS service is installed

    Since the services are what you are really looking for, you will see all of them for each Server you query.

    If you search for SQL Server Service on YourServer0546, which...

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  • RE: Unable to shrink log file due to transactional replication

    stepping back...since you've been troubleshooting for a week on three different sites, might I suggest either opening a case with MS, or re-initializing. The re-publishing thing will make...

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  • RE: script to find if SSRS / SSIS service is installed

    It may sound a bit-self serving, but if you have a server list in a text file, you can loop through that quite easily using Lowells commands coupled with techniques...

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  • RE: Azure licensing for SQL Server

    SQL VM as noted above has two different ways to pay. You pay while the VM shows anything other than 'Deallocated' in the Azure Portal. Turn off...

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  • RE: Numeric characters that are varchar type going into Excel column as string

    As far as I've ever seen, the alignment is done in the presentation layer...Excel, SSRS, etc. SQL just pushes the data...

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  • RE: Azure

    Sign up for the free/limited Azure account and start learning the Azure Portal, how to create a VM (with or without SQL preinstalled), how to create an Azure SQL Database,...

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  • RE: Replication Between SQL Server to SQL Server and SQL Server to Oracle?

    Please explain what you mean by Replication (many use the term generically).

    Microsoft Replication is built into SQL Server and will replicate to both another SQL Server as well as an...

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  • RE: Create Job Server

    First of all, DO NOT USE MAINTENANCE PLANS for any of this. Try what you find at the following URL

    https://ola.hallengren.com/[/url]

    ROFL :-D:-P;-):w00t::cool:

    There are situations where (not very flexible) maintenance...

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  • RE: Install 2016 Instance next to SQL 2005 ??

    There are some limitations and such listed here:

    SQL Server 2016 Support for SQL Server 2005

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  • RE: Upgrade sql 2008 r2 cluster to sql 2012

    Mainstream support for Windows 2008 R2 has ended, extended support in 2020...any chance you can build a cluster with current versions and migrate to that? Just a thought,...

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