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Advice and care you need to follow when you get a solution to your quest on SQL Server forums?
Paul Randal has highlighted the importance of DBCC statements you execute within your SQL environment and care you need to take care when you get a solution for your question on the forums & newsgroups. Best advice is to test whatever has been specified Read More...
Failed to claim unused space with SP_SPACEUSED?
Recently I have been stumped by not cliaming unused space correctly even though after delete handful of rows on a table. You may be aware using SP_SPACEUSED will get you details such as : Column name Data type Description database_name nvarchar(128) Name Read More...
Error: Could not find row in sysindexes for database. 8966, 823 and 602
Long ago, not long ago.... No doubt that many of you might have gone through the error above within your SQL environment, also I see many forum posts out there to resolve the issue. The bottom line of this issue is Hardware and no other issue can contribute Read More...
How to get updated page or row count information for the current database?
DBCC UPDATEUSAGE (0); GO Best practice to use DBCC UPDATEUSAGE i ntermittently and must if you have upgraded the database from SQL 2000 to 2005. The usual working fashion of this DBCC statement is to correct the rows, used pages, reserved pages, leaf Read More...
Database consistency checks and transaction log is filing up, help?
Yet anothe forums related question I would like to blog, as I have seen in my experience on newsgroups. There will be always a question asking about why Transaction log is filling up and blocking is ocurred when a DBREINDEX & CHECKDB processes are Read More...
SQL Server 2005 & 2000 - Index optimization best practices
In SQL Server 2000 for index defragmentation DBCC DBREINDEX and DBCC INDEXDEFRAG statements are used, as you are aware defragmentation on table does not yield performance gains in every case. Every scenario is different. Similarly, determining when you Read More...