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SQLAuthority News – Download SQL Server 2008 Express Datasheet
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SQLAuthority News – Ahmedabad Community Tech Days – Jan 30, 2010 – Huge Success
Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLServer, T SQL, Technology, tagged CTD on February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Ahmedabad Community Tech Days was held on Jan 30, 2010 at Bhaikaka Hall. This event was very received well and attended by a large number of technology enthusiasts and a number of TOP speakers from various technologies. During this event Pinal Dave (myself) and Jacob Sebastian had decided to do something different as the theme [...]
SQL SERVER – ALTER DATABASE dbname SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology on February 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I have recently been conducting lots of training on SQL Server technology. During these trainings, I quite often create new databases and drop them as well. Many times, I am not able to drop the database as one of my instances might be using the database. As I am working on my laptop and very [...]
SQLAuthority News – Converting a Delimited String of Values into Columns
Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Function, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL String, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL XML, SQLAuthority Website Review, T SQL, Technology on February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This blog post is about two great bloggers and their excellent series of blog posts. It was quite unusual to see two bloggers posting articles that are supporting each other and constantly improving the articles to the next level. Two blogs which I am going to mention here are as follows: SELECT Blog FROM Brad.Schulz [...]
SQL SERVER – Brief Note about StreamInsight – What is StreamInsight
Posted in DBA, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology, tagged StreamInsight on February 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
StreamInsight is a new event processing platform introduced in upcoming version SQL Server 2008 R2. Similar to other components such as SSIS, SSAS or Service Broker, it also needs to be installed along with the SQL Server. Up to SQL Server 2005, Microsoft’s main focus on SQL Server was to build a platform to efficiently [...]
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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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