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Dodo Lurker

2006-10-24, 6:33 pm

I know the difference between the two.

If I take production database that's in Full Recovery and move it to a test
server, would changing
the recovery model to Simple affect any performance tests I run? The ldf
file will be on a separate disk from the mdf file.


Hilary Cotter

2006-10-24, 6:33 pm

The impact if anything would be minimal.

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"Dodo Lurker" <none@noemailplease> wrote in message
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>I know the difference between the two.
>
> If I take production database that's in Full Recovery and move it to a
> test
> server, would changing
> the recovery model to Simple affect any performance tests I run? The ldf
> file will be on a separate disk from the mdf file.
>
>



Andrew Pike

2006-10-24, 6:33 pm

One scenario that would affect performance could arise if you are testing
bulk loading scripts. Either Simple or Bulk Logged recovery model is one of
the prerequisites for 'minimally' logged operations. If you meet the other
criteria, the logging overhead would be reduced and bulk load operations can
run much faster.

Do you not require an indication of the transaction log overhead of your
test scripts?

Regards

Andrew Pike
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SQL Server DBA
UBS IB



"Dodo Lurker" wrote:

> I know the difference between the two.
>
> If I take production database that's in Full Recovery and move it to a test
> server, would changing
> the recovery model to Simple affect any performance tests I run? The ldf
> file will be on a separate disk from the mdf file.
>
>
>

Hari Prasad

2006-10-24, 6:33 pm

Hi,

No; there will not be any performance impact. Only thing is your
transactions will be cleared from LDF file on every checkpoint
automatically.
One more thing is if you chnage the recovery model to FULL then you need to
take a full database backup to create the backup chain again.

Thanks
Hari
SQL Server MVP

"Dodo Lurker" <none@noemailplease> wrote in message
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>I know the difference between the two.
>
> If I take production database that's in Full Recovery and move it to a
> test
> server, would changing
> the recovery model to Simple affect any performance tests I run? The ldf
> file will be on a separate disk from the mdf file.
>
>



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