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  • GilaMonster (4/16/2012)


    mtassin (4/16/2012)


    So when I see you throw out a question like this... I'd expect that you'd expect a Sr DBA to work on these sorts of things.

    No, I don't. Not unless the person is looking for a job within the SQL Server storage engine team. It (and the various other 'unanswerable questions') are purely to see if someone can admit that they don't know something.

    gotcha... 🙂 Makes sense



    --Mark Tassin
    MCITP - SQL Server DBA
    Proud member of the Anti-RBAR alliance.
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  • mtassin (4/16/2012)


    GilaMonster (4/16/2012)


    mtassin (4/16/2012)


    So when I see you throw out a question like this... I'd expect that you'd expect a Sr DBA to work on these sorts of things.

    No, I don't. Not unless the person is looking for a job within the SQL Server storage engine team. It (and the various other 'unanswerable questions') are purely to see if someone can admit that they don't know something.

    gotcha... 🙂 Makes sense

    I'd still like to know what an ML page is in a log file, especially since I didn't think they had pages (or is it they don't have pages in the sense that datafiles have pages).

  • Lynn Pettis (4/16/2012)


    mtassin (4/16/2012)


    GilaMonster (4/16/2012)


    mtassin (4/16/2012)


    So when I see you throw out a question like this... I'd expect that you'd expect a Sr DBA to work on these sorts of things.

    No, I don't. Not unless the person is looking for a job within the SQL Server storage engine team. It (and the various other 'unanswerable questions') are purely to see if someone can admit that they don't know something.

    gotcha... 🙂 Makes sense

    I'd still like to know what an ML page is in a log file, especially since I didn't think they had pages (or is it they don't have pages in the sense that datafiles have pages).

    From what I read about them when I googled... ML pages aren't in Log Files, they're just picked up in Transaction Log Backups because the bitmap says so.... But I'm probably wrong.

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/post/Inside-The-Storage-Engine-GAM-SGAM-PFS-and-other-allocation-maps.aspx



    --Mark Tassin
    MCITP - SQL Server DBA
    Proud member of the Anti-RBAR alliance.
    For help with Performance click this link[/url]
    For tips on how to post your problems[/url]

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