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  • RE: Policy Based Management - Enabling Transaction Logs

    Yeah, I'm completely lost as to what the code is trying to code. And if the db is offline, you won't be able to access the view "sys.database_files" within...

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  • RE: Non-Clustered, Composite Primary Key

    TomThomson (7/25/2014)


    Brandie Tarvin (7/23/2014)


    Not to provoke debate (but I'm gonna anyway @=), I generally use surrogate Identity columns as singular, non-composite PKs because if I used natural composite keys, 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".

  • RE: Group by performance FK / PK

    peter 67432 (7/25/2014)


    Hi Scott,

    When I try to run the scripts I get:

    'Online index operations can only be performed in Enterprise edition of SQL Server.'

    Is there a way to do...

    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: I am Confused about SQL Server performance

    Lynn Pettis (7/24/2014)


    One thing to remember about Oracle and SQL Server, they are not the same. The internals are different, and there for how the operate is different.

    For example,...

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  • RE: Query on Linked Server

    Lowell (7/24/2014)

    SELECT * From myTable

    INNER JOIN MyLinkedServer.SandBox.dbo.AnotherTable myAlias

    ON MyTable.ID = MyAlias.ID

    WHERE myAlias.CustomerID = 12

    looks pretty simple, right? with a WHERE statement that specific, i'd expect very few rows, since how...

    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: SQL procedure Query Performance issue

    mallikachowdhary 98955 (7/24/2014)


    Hi ,

    I have a issue regarding a query showing very late response on one server while it works perfectly on another.

    I have a job defined in SQL server...

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  • RE: DB transaction log file on a shared hosting service

    >> and restricted the log size to 30mb <<

    That seems a little low, given that you might have a situation where one transaction takes a while to complete. 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: DB transaction log file on a shared hosting service

    You simply must get some answers to accurately resolve this:

    1) What is the recovery model for your database? Bulk-logged, Full or Simple?

    2) If not simple, at what time(s) during...

    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: Question on data compression

    Igor Micev (7/23/2014)


    ScottPletcher (7/23/2014)


    I suspect there's a better clustering key, rather than the "default" identity, that might clear up a lot of your performance issues. Getting the best clustering...

    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: Stuck stored procedure

    pdanes (7/23/2014)And to think, if I had answered that matchbook ad, I could be driving a truck for big wages...

    And wishing you'd answered that matchbook ad for a technical school...

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  • RE: Question on data compression

    N_Muller (7/23/2014)


    Transaction ID was not the best term - I guess I should have used Event ID :-). Event ID is naturally increasing, but there are many changes to...

    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: Question on data compression

    N_Muller (7/23/2014)


    Identity as a clustered index was not my first choice. The problem is that this is a high volume, high concurrency OLTP with thousands of data inserts per minute....

    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: Question on data compression

    If you're willing to push back against the myth that identity should be default clustering key, and base the clustering key(s) choice on data instead, you can change the bolded...

    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: Question on data compression

    I suspect there's a better clustering key, rather than the "default" identity, that might clear up a lot of your performance issues. Getting the best clustering key(s) is 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: Detaching the database to free up space

    I'd definitely restore and use the backup before I deleted the original files.

    But rather than detach and delete the files yourself, just do a DROP DATABASE, which would be 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".

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