I am really not sure how many times I have been asked about GDPR Compliance in the recent months. You must bookmark this page and share with your organizations if you are doing business with European Union or firm based out of European Union.
It is quite often to see the email in mailbox with the following title –
How to Make SQL Server GDPR Compliance?
Recently during Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I had a very interesting conversation. SQL Server has introduced Activity Monitor many version earlier. I think everybody is now pretty familiar with this tool and use it frequently. However, during my consulting work, I use different scripts which are much more efficient than Activity Monitor. However, it is alright to use it once in a while.
Earlier I wrote a blog post about how to remove leading and trailing spaces with TRIM function. SQL SERVER – 2017 – How to Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces with TRIM Function? After writing this blog post lots of people asked me its impact on SQL Server.Â
Not every problem might have a solution and we must use a workaround to move forward. This blog is also related to one such error message which I observed while installing a clustered instance of SQL Server.
One of my clients contacted me for an issue where they reported that they are seeing an issue with numbers when they are accessed via Oracle linked server.
Question: How to Get Top N Records Per Group? (using Ranking Function)Â
Answer:Â During a recent interview, I had given this simple puzzle to over 40 candidates. This simple puzzle depends on Ranking Window Functions.
Just the other day I received an email with a question – What Does SET NOEXEC Do?
A Very popular question I often here whenever I am presenting at the developer conference – How to Change Column Property From NULL to Not NULL Value?
It is indeed fun to let you know that I will be presenting at Difinity 2018Â (12-14 February, 2018), New Zealand 3 different sessions on SQL Server Performance Tuning. SQL Server Performance Tuning is my favorite topic and I will get the opportunity to present on this topic not once but three times. If you are in and around the Auckland area, you should not miss any chance to meet me and learn SQL Server Performance tuning first hand from me.
TRIM Function has haunted SQL DBA for ages. If you have been using SQL Server for a while, you will totally agree with me over here. In this blog post we will see how the new feature TRIM of SQL Server 2017 works in few simple words.