How many times have you heard or uttered those words? You work hard and understand the business requirements, you try and get the logic to work to make the procedure return what was expected or update the data as expected. You do some unit tests in your environment, it may not scream but it comes [...]
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A Picture That Says, “Don’t Shrink!” (and other things…)
So I wrote a lot of posts around shrinking (Here, here, here). Some of my posts were turned into a wiki article on SQLServerPedia. I thought I was done posting about this but one more.
I talked about why we shouldn’t do it on a regular basis. Why it should really be reserved for use in [...]
Manage Your Transactions (So They Don’t Manage You – Part 2)
This is the final in a series on shrinking and transactions. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
In part 1, we talked about factors that affect transaction log growth. We talked about what a SQL Server transaction is and the various modes SQL interacts with a transaction (Autocommit, Implicit Transactions and Explicit [...]
Manage Your Transactions (So they don’t manage you – Part 1)
This is part 3 in a series on shrinking and transaction management. Click here for part 4. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
If you are one of the people who have been reading this blog, you know where I stand on shrinking databases/log files. I don’t like the practice (Post 1, Post [...]
Just add a join hint!
When I posted about Empirical Evidence and finding a Troubleshooting Methodology, I talked about implementing a solution just because it seemed to work. This can manifest itself in different ways. Some are alright and harmless (what your shotgun hit happened to be the right fix) and some can be dangerous and hide the real problem.
One [...]
Shrinking is a popular topic…
When I started blogging, my first posts were on shrinking. That’s still a popular search. Why?
Don’t Touch that Shrink Button!
This post is part 1 in a series on shrinking and transaction management. Part 2 is linked at the bottom or here. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
This topic has indeed been done to death. Yet I still often encounter unnecessary database autoshrinks, scheduled shrink jobs and at times a seeming [...]
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