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  • RE: Lets talk about memory, and a very simple question... "how much do I need"

    sorry for taking a while to reply...

    thanks for the links and feedback! 🙂

    dont know why I didnt start with sqlskills... invaluable resources over there!

  • RE: SQL Agent executes RoboCopy via PowerShell

    fixed.

    changed the destination path to a local dir and it worked.

    changed back to UNC path, and added /R:0 and it 'succeeded' the job, but did not move files....

  • RE: SQL Agent executes RoboCopy via PowerShell

    thanks Lee.

    Im trying to figure out why these were configured under PowerShell initially, and not really getting anywhere 😉

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    Final follow-up... I forgot to update this thread with my findings...

    We were able to get ghost-cleanup to make a great deal of progress by way of index re-organizations.

    but it didnt...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    reorg has been running for ~30 minutes and table size went from 730gb to 729gb (as returned by sp_spaceused which has its margin of error of course).

    considering the quantity of...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    SpringTownDBA (9/29/2011)


    found this:

    http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Turning-off-the-ghost-cleanup-task-for-a-performance-gain.aspx

    I'm not recommending that you turn it off, but it mentioned that index reorgs and rebuilds will remove ghost records.

    So, if you take the output...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    and using the query against dm_exec_requests from Paul Randal's blog, I see only one active ghost_cleanup task, with a start_time of almost 48 hours ago.

    so this isnt an issue of...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    for the sake of argument/discussion, regarding the purge method/ghost_cleanup not being logically capable of keeping up.

    Why has this purge worked for a couple of years without issue/incident on sql 2005?...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    its all in a single partition/filegroup, and all in one big fat nasty table.

    purges are done via cursor or where statement etc so we can control how long the purge...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    also of note, and I didnt make this connection till now:

    the OTHER table that is exhibiting this behavior AND the original table are the two with the highest volume of...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    the ghost_record_count query has been going over 5 hours now and has over 1100 rows. I stupidly ran it to grid results, which isnt likely to give me the...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    you guys rule. running that query now.

    I'll also try the sp_spaceused with update usage = true on a non-prod copy to get a feel for how long and what kinda...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    jared-709193 (9/26/2011)


    Ok, can you post the results of sp_spaceused for this table? And... Are you setting updateusage = TRUE?

    Thanks,

    Jared

    shouldnt be necessary with sql 2005 +.

    or is there something im...

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    suresh.guglani (9/27/2011)


    By the way have you checked avg_page_space_used_in_percent with sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats dmv.

    NULL?

  • RE: mysterious table growth

    no partitioning, just a single file group with a bunch of secondary files.

    I know its not optimal, but I'm on the implementation end NOT the architecting end of this...

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