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size /1024 / 1024 AS gbsize
That is not the right computation to get gb. "size" is the number/count of 8K pages. So, to get gb from size, 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".
January 14, 2013 at 12:23 pm
The person's login id is often some combination of last name and first name, so you need to change the name there.
However, internally you should assign each person/user a unique...
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".
January 13, 2013 at 11:48 am
You can definitely shrink the log file "live". SQL simply won't do it if it would cause a loss of data.
The tricky part is finding the right size 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".
January 11, 2013 at 3:55 pm
And you often need to compare for a full day against a legitimate datetime column.
For example, in a logging table, you would have logging datetime -- obviously you would want...
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".
January 11, 2013 at 1:24 pm
When the potential-trouble step starts, it could immediately start another job. A job start is async so it would not delay the first process. The extra job...
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".
January 11, 2013 at 11:22 am
Excellent article overall.
These are extremely difficult concepts to introduce to people, and the article does a superb job of making the ideas accessible to anyone.
[I do think Alice should 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".
January 11, 2013 at 8:45 am
Steven Willis (1/10/2013)
ScottPletcher (1/10/2013)
dwain.c (1/9/2013)
Steven - Those FUNCTIONs look like nice work. I've saved them off for future analysis. 🙂
You might want to review the new functions in SQL...
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".
January 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm
dwain.c (1/9/2013)
Steven - Those FUNCTIONs look like nice work. I've saved them off for future analysis. 🙂
You might want to review the new functions in SQL 2012 dealing 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".
January 10, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Bhuvnesh (1/9/2013)
ScottPletcher (1/9/2013)
the cursor should be optimized with FAST_FORWARD:Any article reference for this ?
Books Online.
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".
January 10, 2013 at 8:29 am
Jeff Moden (1/9/2013)
ScottPletcher (1/9/2013)
Don't automatically assume the PK makes the best, or even a good, clustered index, in particular if the PK is an identity column.
Considering that the IDENTITY column...
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".
January 10, 2013 at 8:28 am
GilaMonster (1/7/2013)
ScottPletcher (1/7/2013)
Fewest rows? The number of rows that match all the criteria will be the same regardless of the index used, right?
Match all criteria, yes. What I was...
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".
January 9, 2013 at 4:13 pm
If you start your procedure name with "sp_", put it in the master db, and mark it as a system object, it can execute in the context of the current...
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".
January 9, 2013 at 4:01 pm
If you just want to run the proc for a single db at a time, you don't need dynamic SQL at all, so I suggest avoiding it. The code's...
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".
January 9, 2013 at 3:33 pm
I, too, don't have a problem with a cursor per se here; it could be done w/o one, but it's not a big deal for such a limited number of...
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".
January 9, 2013 at 3:18 pm
Btw, it's always frustrated me that SQL Server can't seem to read only the non-leaf pages of a clustered index. If SQL needs only key column(s), why does it...
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".
January 9, 2013 at 2:36 pm
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