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  • RE: Dynamic Shrink Log file on server

    What's proposed here is a really poor practice. You can't just arbitrarily shrink a SQL db log with no analysis because you could just be forcing it to be...

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  • RE: Bad Query Plan

    TheSQLGuru (8/8/2014)


    ScottPletcher (8/8/2014)


    TheSQLGuru (8/8/2014)


    ScottPletcher (8/8/2014)


    My first choice would be to use RECOMPILE and just force SQL to rebuild a plan every time.

    But, if a HASH join is the "good" plan,...

    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".

  • RE: Bad Query Plan

    TheSQLGuru (8/8/2014)


    ScottPletcher (8/8/2014)


    My first choice would be to use RECOMPILE and just force SQL to rebuild a plan every time.

    But, if a HASH join is the "good" plan, forcing a...

    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".

  • RE: Bad Query Plan

    My first choice would be to use RECOMPILE and just force SQL to rebuild a plan every time.

    But, if a HASH join is the "good" plan, forcing a HASH join...

    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".

  • RE: Bad Query Plan

    Robert klimes (8/7/2014)


    Roger Sabin (8/7/2014)


    I tried what you suggest and it does force the "bad" plan when I use 40 and a "good" plan when I use 17. Thanks.

    So now...

    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".

  • RE: Index creation

    GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    New Born DBA (8/7/2014)


    GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    What does "Creating an index within the application" even mean?

    No Idea. I wanted to ask him the same thing

    Then do so.

    Seems to me it would...

    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".

  • RE: Index creation

    Unfortunately, you really can't accurately look at one index recommendation in isolation. You really have to consider indexes in toto, including a minimum of missing index and existing index...

    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".

  • RE: Different result for one query

    A longshot, but, in the interests of being thorough ...

    Are there possibly different "table1" tables under different schemas? Could one session be reading from a different schema.table1 than 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".

  • RE: simple division

    select 18 * 1.0/94

    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".

  • RE: SELECT clause

    GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    ScottPletcher (8/7/2014)


    Which is why I don't quite understand the "definitely not!" 🙂

    You may have missed the word before that phrase.

    "The average of those isn't 'definitely not'"

    Yep, sure did :blush:

    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".

  • RE: INSERT Table into ITSELF???? WHY???

    Would it "ever not do that"?

    The INSERT could fail if it ran out of physical file space to hold the new rows.

    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".

  • RE: SELECT clause

    ChrisM@Work (8/7/2014)


    ScottPletcher (8/7/2014)


    ChrisM@Work (8/7/2014)


    gstarsaini (8/7/2014)


    Thanks for the reply.

    This means there is no effect on the queries?

    Each reply posted to your question implies "maybe", "probably" or "definitely". The average of these...

    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".

  • RE: SELECT clause

    ChrisM@Work (8/7/2014)


    gstarsaini (8/7/2014)


    Thanks for the reply.

    This means there is no effect on the queries?

    Each reply posted to your question implies "maybe", "probably" or "definitely". The average of these isn't "definitely...

    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".

  • RE: SELECT clause

    gstarsaini (8/7/2014)


    Do multiple SELECT queries on the same table but different condition in WHERE clause block or affect each other in any way?

    They definitely could. The WHERE conditions determine...

    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".

  • RE: Stupid Stored Procedure Question Nbr 1

    Bill Talada (8/6/2014)


    To be chosen as a deadlock victim, two threads must be inside transactions. If thread one updates tableA then tableB while thread two updates tableB then tableA...

    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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