Yesterday, was an amazing day for me personally. When I had published this blog post, I had completed 4000th blog post on SQLAuthority.com. It is amazing how my journey from a single blog post has reached to 4000 blog posts in just 10 years. I have been blogging every single day from last 10 years and I am so happy with your constant support.
What is the Initial Size of TempDB? – Interview Question of the Week #120
Question: What is the Initial Size of TempDB? Trust me, this question is way more complicated than you read in one line.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Service – OS Error 5 (Access is denied.) for TempDB
This was really one of the issue where I was totally confused because SQL Server was raising incorrect error message. Let me first tell you what I was doing. I was trying to move TEMPDB database files to a new location. I ran below alter commands and restarted SQL Server. Let us learn about OS Error 5.
SQL SERVER – FIX : Msg 8115, Level 16, Arithmetic Overflow Error Converting IDENTITY to Data Type INT
One of my friends who is a SharePoint expert told that he is getting overflow error while doing check-in on the document. He was confident that the error is related to SQL and that’s why he contacted me. I used profiler and found the table which had the problem and fixed that as well. This blog is an outcome of that work done. Let us see the error related to Arithmetic Overflow Error.
Why SELECT HOST_NAME() Returns Empty String? – Interview Question of the Week #119
Question: Why SELECT HOST_NAME() Returns Empty String while connected from certain .net application?










