Just a day before I received wonderful T-SQL Script from SQL Server Expert Imran Mohammed. What I am really impressed from this script is additional feature of changing recovery mode when SQL Server is enabling and disabling Index. When index are enabled changing SQL Server Recovery mode to simple makes whole operation faster. This stored [...]
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SQL SERVER – Enable and Disable Index Non Clustered Indexes Using T-SQL
Posted in Pinal Dave, Readers Contribution, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Index, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Utility, T SQL, Technology on February 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
SQLAuthority Author Visit – A True Outsourcing Giant and Technology Leader DigiCorp in Ahmedabad India
Posted in Database, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged DigiCorp on February 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Last week, I happen to visit one of the tech company in Ahmedabad, India. I visit different IT organization for two purpose – learn more about technology advancement in different organization and help them with any issues if they are facing with Microsoft technology and in particular SQL Server. I visited DigiCorp Information Systems Pvt. [...]
SQL SERVER – Find Current Location of Data and Log File of All the Database
Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Documentation, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Security, SQL Server, SQL System Table, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology on February 17, 2009 | 14 Comments »
As I am doing lots of experiments on my SQL Server test box, I sometime gets too many files in SQL Server data installation folder – the place where I have all the .mdf and .ldf files are stored. I often go to that folder and clean up all unnecessary files I have left there [...]
SQL SERVER – List All Server Wide Configurations Values
Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology on February 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Just a day ago, while working on one of the project, I needed to see what is the two digit year cutoff of my current SQL Server. I did not remember what was the exact syntax to search for the same so I ran following query to list all server wide configurations. While looking at [...]
SQL SERVER – Reasons to Backup Master Database – Why Should Master Database Backedup
Posted in Best Practices, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Data Storage, SQL Query, SQL Security, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Utility, T SQL, Technology on February 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The most interesting thing about writing blog at SQLAuthority.com is follow up question. Just a day before I wrote article about SQL SERVER – Restore Master Database – An Easy Solution, right following it, I received email from user requesting reason for importance of backing up master database. Master database contains all the system level [...]
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Pinal Dave is a Microsoft Technology Evangelist (Database and BI). He has written over 2000 articles on the subject on his blog at http://blog.sqlauthority.com. Along with 8+ years of hands on experience he holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of certifications, including MCTS, MCDBA and MCAD (.NET). He is co-author of three SQL Server books - SQL Server Programming, SQL Wait Stats and SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers. Prior to joining Microsoft he was awarded Microsoft MVP award for three continuous years for his contribution in community.
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