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SQL Server 2008 R2 (major build version 10.50.xxxx). Please also tag with sql-server.

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Increased RAM, Worse Performance

Thanks to everyone for your help. After pouring through some execution plans, it turns out there is a JOIN that is being processed differently based on the amount of RAM available. With less RAM it e …
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Increased RAM, Worse Performance

Setup: Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 240GB RAM TempDB is 8x16GB data files w/out auto-grow (128GB total) Physical/Stand-alone Server This server is used for ETL processing. We jus …
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Why is there still a varchar data type?

In addition to the answers addressing standards and compatibility, one should also keep in mind performance. While disk space is readily accepted as cheap, DBAs/Developers often ignore the fact that q …
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Rollback group of DDL statements

Working in SQL Server 2008 R2, I am trying to rollback a set of DDL statements as a group (think of an upgrade script for a database), but am running into trouble. Take the following code: begin try …
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