One of my blog readers sent me the following mail after reading my earlier blog posts about Random Function and OTP Code. Before you read the email, you can read those blog posts here, here, and here.
Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Games , Interaction and Feedback
If you are following this blog, you would be familiar with my online class Practical Real World Performance Tuning with Brent Ozar. The course was initially planned to offer for only 3 different times this year. However, due to a popularity of the course, we had offered this course so far 5 times. The course is very unique and there is nothing out there which is comparable to this course. Let me just highlight a few points which makes me proud every time I talk about this course. Let us discuss Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Games , Interaction and Feedback.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Error – The Job Failed. Unable to Determine If The Owner Domain\User of Job Job_Name Has Server Access
I keep on breaking my lab environment and have learned many things from it. Here is one of the recent errors which I fixed. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error “The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner
Which is Faster – INSERT INTO SELECT or SELECT INTO? – Interview Question of the Week #187
Question: Which is Faster – INSERT INTO SELECT or SELECT INTO?
SQL SERVER – Unable to Remove Replication Publication – Could not Delete the Subscription at Subscriber ‘SubServer’ in Database ‘SubDB’
While playing with my lab server having broken replication, I encountered an error message when I was trying to remove publication. In this blog, we would learn about how to fix error Could not delete the subscription at Subscriber ‘SubServer’ in database ‘SubDB’.
SQL SERVER – Useful Queries – Why Huge Transaction Log (LDF) File? Fix Low Disk Free Space on the Drive Used by LDF Files
During my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check engagement with the client, one of the most common issue found was the huge size of the transaction log file. In this blog, we would learn about useful queries which I use to help my client in fixing Huge Transaction Log (LDF) File.
SQL SERVER – Error: 17300 – The Error is Printed in Terse Mode Because There was Error During Formatting
SQL SERVER – Error: 17300 – The Error is Printed in Terse Mode Because There was Error During Formatting. Let us fix that in this blog.
SQL SERVER – How to Generate Random Password? – Enhanced Version – Part 2
I have previously written about Random Password before in the blog posts here, here and here. This blog is sent by James Curran, who has created the following generate random password stored procedure keeping the base of the original solution of Tim Cartwright. Thanks to both of this individual SQL Server Expert who has helped me to come up with a more robust solution for a random password.
SQL SERVER – DBA Disruptors eCourse
Performance tuning is indeed very simple in the real world but many experts often project it as a very complex task. I often think it is because that expert would love to project that they are master of some complex art, which is not easily mastered. However, I personally believe everyone who wants to learn performance tuning, can learn it quickly and easily. I am very happy to discuss my latest DBA Disruptors eCourse.
SQL SERVER – COUNT, FROM and a Query – Interesting Observation
In this blog post today we will see an interesting observation which is related to COUNT and FROM clause in a single query. During my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, this was brought to my attention by one of the attendees.