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Untold Secrets of SQL Server: What if?

The Strategic Use of Undocumented Commands

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SQL Server: More light shed on "non-yielding scheduler" and Indexes stats

SQL server folks may find the "non-yielding scheduler" warning familiar and it is usually (if not always) ...

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SSIS tip: Set variables' values interactively in SSIS packages

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SMB File Share and SQL Server: An option to consider

Introduction

When we relate file share and databases, many people will turn up their noses ...

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SQL Server Statistics: Maintenance and Best Practices

What are Statistics?

There are multiple paths a database can use to answer a query, some of them being ...

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SQL server:opening errorlog:Failed to retrieve data for this request

After an in place upgrade of SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2008 R2 , I tried to open SQL errorlog from ...

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Troubleshooting Transactional Replication Latency Using Agent Statistics

In this blog post, we will look at how you can leverage the Agent statistics to troubleshoot the replication latency ...

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Availability Group - Delay with Listener Connectivity After Failover

The beauty of working for multiple clients from different industries is that you get exposed to a myriad of ...

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How to Install a Clustered SQL Server 2012 Instance – Part 4

We have reached the last article of this series. To close this series out, we will talk about Distributed ...

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Using UNPIVOT with CDC Functions to get Updated Columns List

Microsoft introduced Change Data Capture (CDC) technology in SQL Server 2008. This technology ...

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Disable Lock Escalation in SQL Server

Introduction

If a lot of rows or pages are locked, the SQL Server escalates to a table-level lock, to save ...

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Merge Replication Identity Range Management - An Identity Disorder? Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we explored Merge Replication Identity Range Management of tables with identity columns. ...

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Magic Knobs in Replication Agents

Have you ever wondered if there's a "secret sauce" for tuning your replication configuration to squeeze out better ...

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Making existing SQLPLUS Scripts 12c and Container DB (PDB) compatible

Oracle 12c introduces new catalog features including CDB_ dictionary views (which include a CON_ID column) superseding ...

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How to Install a Clustered SQL Server 2012 Instance – Part 2

The installation:

In ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SSAS– Resolving Target Machine Actively Refused

Microsoft SQL Server

How to Install a Clustered SQL Server 2012 Instance – Part 1

In this series, I will demonstrate how to install a ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server and OS Error 1117, Error 9001, Error 823

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server replication quick tips

There is a time in every SQL Server DBA career where a ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to Collect Cluster Information Using TSQL

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL server error: 18056, Severity: 20, State: 29

Introduction

Howdy everyone,

One of ...

Microsoft SQL Server

List of SQL Server Databases in an Availability Group

Handling Maintenance Failures in SQL Server ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Data profile: better knowing your data

Problem Statement

Have you ever needed to ...

Microsoft SQL Server

T-SQL: Retrieve all users and associated roles for ALL databases

Context

A frequent inquiry concerning ...

Oracle

Running querys against multiple SQL Server AND Oracle instances

Background

It is not unusual that a DBA needs ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Troubleshooting SSPI handshake error

I have seen lots of questions floating in the msdn ...

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SQL server: Create missing indexes with unmessing names

If you do any performance tuning, and everyone does, ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Analyzing SQL Server Data File Anatomy

A database is a defined space stored in the system, ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Check URL status from SQL server

One of our clients has a public web page and they ...

Microsoft SQL Server

T-SQL:Generate statements to add TEMPDB datafiles

TEMPDB, is one of SQL server hot-debated topics; ...

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Featured blog posts

Untold Secrets of SQL Server: What if?

The Strategic Use of Undocumented Commands

SQL Server: More light shed on "non-yielding scheduler" and Indexes stats

SSIS tip: Set variables' values interactively in SSIS packages

Debugging

SMB File Share and SQL Server: An option to consider

Introduction

SQL Server Statistics: Maintenance and Best Practices

What are Statistics?

SQL server:opening errorlog:Failed to retrieve data for this request

Troubleshooting Transactional Replication Latency Using Agent Statistics

Availability Group - Delay with Listener Connectivity After Failover

How to Install a Clustered SQL Server 2012 Instance – Part 4

Using UNPIVOT with CDC Functions to get Updated Columns List

Disable Lock Escalation in SQL Server

Introduction

Merge Replication Identity Range Management - An Identity Disorder? Part 2

Magic Knobs in Replication Agents

Making existing SQLPLUS Scripts 12c and Container DB (PDB) compatible

How to Install a Clustered SQL Server 2012 Instance – Part 2

The installation:

SSAS– Resolving Target Machine Actively Refused

How to Install a Clustered SQL Server 2012 Instance – Part 1

SQL Server and OS Error 1117, Error 9001, Error 823

SQL Server replication quick tips

How to Collect Cluster Information Using TSQL

SQL server error: 18056, Severity: 20, State: 29

Introduction

List of SQL Server Databases in an Availability Group

Handling Maintenance Failures in SQL Server ...

Data profile: better knowing your data

Problem Statement

T-SQL: Retrieve all users and associated roles for ALL databases

Context

Running querys against multiple SQL Server AND Oracle instances

Background

Troubleshooting SSPI handshake error

SQL server: Create missing indexes with unmessing names

Analyzing SQL Server Data File Anatomy

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