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Untold Secrets of SQL Server: What if?

The Strategic Use of Undocumented Commands It's common practice for IT vendors to keep some of the commands and ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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) associated ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SSIS tip: Set variables' values interactively in SSIS packages

Debugging This is a little tip for those who develop SSIS packages.

Microsoft SQL Server

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 - but today this is a ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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 faster and more ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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 Management> ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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 ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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 environment ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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 Transaction ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Using UNPIVOT with CDC Functions to get Updated Columns List

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

Microsoft SQL Server

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 resources. ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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. We ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Magic Knobs in Replication Agents

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

Oracle

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 ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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

The installation: In continuation of our series on how to install a SQL Server 2012 clustered instance, let´s begin the ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SSAS– Resolving Target Machine Actively Refused

Situation I’ve always wanted to get my hands on SSAS, SSIS and SSRS as I’ve often felt shorthanded in these areas. ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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

In this series, I will demonstrate how to install a SQL Server 2012 clustered instance in a cluster of two nodes. In ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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

Introduction Along with other administrators, life of us, the DBAs are no different but full of adventure. At times, we ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server replication quick tips

There is a time in every SQL Server DBA career where a mail came in with a “replication is not working, please check” ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to Collect Cluster Information Using TSQL

Context Sometime back, I was involved in a project that consisted in collecting information for the servers we are ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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

Introduction Howdy everyone, One of the most frequent error messages I come across when dealing with SQL Server, ...

Microsoft SQL Server

List of SQL Server Databases in an Availability Group

Handling Maintenance Failures in SQL Server Availability Groups After migrating some databases to SQL Server 2012 and ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Data profile: better knowing your data

Problem Statement Have you ever needed to start a new data analysis project or create a report for the business users ...

Microsoft SQL Server

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

Context A frequent inquiry concerning databases’ security is to retrieve the database role(s) associated with each user ...

Oracle

Running querys against multiple SQL Server AND Oracle instances

Background It is not unusual that a DBA needs to run the same query across multiple instances. The query can be ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Troubleshooting SSPI handshake error

I have seen lots of questions floating in the msdn forums about SSPI Handshake error, the main question is around error ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL server: Create missing indexes with unmessing names

If you do any performance tuning, and everyone does, then you’ll come to a point where you want to know if your tables ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Analyzing SQL Server Data File Anatomy

A database is a defined space stored in the system, grouping user objects. This space can be split into several files ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Check URL status from SQL server

One of our clients has a public web page and they needed to ensure that it is always up and accessible. Pythian already ...

Microsoft SQL Server

T-SQL:Generate statements to add TEMPDB datafiles

TEMPDB, is one of SQL server hot-debated topics; there’s always something to say about its sizing, file placement or ...

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Untold Secrets of SQL Server: What if?

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

SSIS tip: Set variables' values interactively in SSIS packages

SMB File Share and SQL Server: An option to consider

SQL Server Statistics: Maintenance and Best Practices

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

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

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

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Data profile: better knowing your data

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

Running querys against multiple SQL Server AND Oracle instances

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