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  • Reply To: How to find unique values in a table

    "The result is"

    For you, but not for us!  We don't have access to your tables nor do we know anything about them.  We need actual usable data to test with,...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Dynamic Alert query

    Would it be feasible for you to use a different SQL Server Alert for each silo?  That is, the Alert would be the same except for silo name, but you...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Index rebuild

    Sergiy wrote:

    When you plan to rebuild/reorganise an index you need to answer the main question:

    What happens next?

    Massive DELETEs on the table imply that there are as massive INSERTs.

    What happens...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Implicit varchar to nvarchar conversion by linked server

    andrei_solntsev wrote:

    For me it looks like a bug when driver converts parameter types like this.

    I tend to agree with you there, I think it's a type of bug as...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Implicit varchar to nvarchar conversion by linked server

    andrei_solntsev wrote:

    Thank you ScottPletcher, your method worked. The query was executed on remote server "as is". The only downside of this method is inability to use parameters. However, this...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Index rebuild

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    I have trouble even imagining the business or technical case where I'd ever design a table to have massive deletes all over the table at the...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Different backup folders (Full, Diff and Log) using ola script

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Yes... I'm well aware (and very thankful) that a given job can only be run once at a time.  The concurrency I'm talking about is when you have...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Index rebuild

    Yeah, I didn't go into deep details in the initial postings.  Didn't seem necessary.  I guess it was.  I have trouble even imagining the business or technical case where I'd...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Index rebuild

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Fairly frequent random deletes lower the space used below the fill factor and thus can cause an issue with reorg.

    First of all,...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Different backup folders (Full, Diff and Log) using ola script

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Heh... lordy... never mind.  Nothing has changed in the last decade.  Jeffrey Yao has an article on the subject.  These aren't what I call "easy" methods and some...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: SQL Server Collation

    Personally, I'd remove SQL and re-add with the desired collation.  Changing collations can be tricky, esp. on the master db.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Different backup folders (Full, Diff and Log) using ola script

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Jeffrey Williams wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    EasyBoy wrote:

    We already keep 1 month of backup on drive and anything above that should transfer to shared backup network and that is...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: extended events bulk copy process

    IF you control the connection string, you can use a specific app name, and then a logon trigger can review the app name and decide if it wants to let...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Does creating memory-optimized tables require a lot of extra DBA support?

    Have you reviewed page compression for the tables?  If not, that's the first thing to look at.  Unless the rows just keep having lots of updates through their entire history.  Generally,...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Reply To: Index rebuild

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ScottPletcher wrote:

    Fairly frequent random deletes lower the space used below the fill factor and thus can cause an issue with reorg.

    First of all, those are NOT random...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

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