Question: How to Enforce Password Policy of Windows to SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – How to Enable Backup Compression On by Default
In this blog post we will discuss how to Enable Backup Compression on by default.
SQL SERVER – Document Your Databases with Data Dictionary and Diagrams
A couple of months ago I told you about the new interesting tool I found for documenting existing database schemas – Dataedo. For those who don’t remember, this is a desktop tool that enables you to describe database schema elements and create ER diagrams for existing databases, and export to nicely formatted HTML and PDF documents.
SQL SERVER – What Are Ghost Records and How to Clean Them Up?
What are Ghost Records and How to Clean Them Up?
I loved this question when I received it last week in my SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop.
SQL Authority News – SQL Server 2017 and Automatic Tuning
Earlier today in Ignite conference, Microsoft announced general availability of SQL Server 2017 on Oct 2. This is fantastic news. Lots of people are waiting for the latest version of SQL Server for a while. The matter of fact, many of my customers are using an earlier version of SQL Server are waiting to upgrade as soon as SQL Server 2017 is available to download. In this blog post I will talk about the feature I have been eagerly waiting to try out –Â Automatic Tuning.Â
SQL SERVER – Select Unique Data From a Column Exist in Two Different Table
If you have not understood what I am going to talk in this blog post by just reading the title, I think you are a normal human like me. Just the other day I received an email from a blog reader with subject line as “Select Unique Data From a Column Exist in Two Different Table”.
SQL SERVER – Simple Explanation of AT TIME ZONE Feature
Recently I received a simple question about AT TIME ZONE feature. This is the new feature which is introduced in SQL Server 2016 and later version of the SQL Server. As this is a relatively new feature the adoption of this feature is also a bit slow. However, let us understand how this function really works in a few simple words.Â
How to Kill User Sessions (SPID) in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #141
Question:Â How to Kill User Sessions (SPID) in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – The Operating System Returned the Error 21(The Device is Not Ready.) While Attempting ‘GetDiskFreeSpace’ on ‘A:\’
I always try to keep myself up-to-date with new released of SQL Server. This blog is part of my learning, while using SQL Server 2017, which I always share with my blog readers. This is the error related to Error 21 about a device not ready.Â
SQL SERVER – New DMV in SQL Server 2017 – sys.dm_os_enumerate_fixed_drives. A Replacement of xp_fixeddrives
Looking at the way SQL has evolved, there are changes coming up in SQL Server 2017 which would help it run on Windows and Linux platforms. Let us learn about dm_os_enumerate_fixed_drives.