Working with new data types is something we need to evolve. In this blog, I have written on a number of articles on JSON which you can take a look at. I wanted to write about some of the interesting errors one will get when using JSON custom paths. This is something I stumbled accidentally when using JSON constructs. Let us see how to fix error 13603 while working with JSON documents.
dbForge Studio for SQL Server – Ultimate SQL Server Manager Tool from Devart
dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful IDE for managing, administrating, configuring, developing various components of SQL Server. The tool incorporates various graphical utilities and script editors allowing developers and administrators to access and manage SQL Server. You can download the latest version of dbForge Studio for SQL Server from the Devart website.
SQL SERVER Puzzle – Conversion with Date Data Types
Over the years, every time I have worked with Date and time data types, I have learnt something new. There are always tons of tight corners where a number of exceptions happen. Though these are known, for someone who is new, this would take them by surprise and your design decisions can have a larger impact on the output that you are likely to get. These can cause a considerable business impact and compliance if we get stuff wrong. Let us see a puzzle about Date Data Types.
SQL SERVER – Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider “Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0” for linked server
As you might have seen, along with performance tuning related work, I also help community in getting answers to questions and troubleshoot issue with them. A few days ago, one of community leader and user group champion contacted me for assistance. He informed me that they are using Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 provider to read data from an excel file. But they are seeing below error while doing test connection. Let us learn about error related to OLE DB provider.
SQL SERVER – Creating Azure VM for SQL Server Using Portal
I need to admit that Microsoft has been investing big time on the Azure platform and the adoption has been great amongst customers. In the recent past, though I have made several performance tuning activities with customers on SQL Server – many have come back to me asking for consulting into migration into Azure. A lot of conversations have been around lift-and-shift application deployments on an Azure VM (Virtual Machine).
SQL SERVER – Why Does Encrypted Column Show NULL on Subscriber?
While I was online on Skype last night, one of my old customers pinged me and wanted to know my opinion of a special issue which he was facing when Encrypted Column Show NULL on Subscriber.
Oracle to SQL SERVER Migration – Triggers Used While Migration
I am a big supporter of working on something that I get used. This is a trend I see that most of us are used to. When was the last time you switched loyalty from one phone to another? I know most of us have multiple devices that we use, but rarely that I have seen switch from an Android to iPhone to Windows to other devices. These are second to human nature. In the past 3+ years, I have been a big-time user from using Android phones. The model that I pick up depends on the price, hardware specification, specific features of my like and more. Let us learn about Oracle to SQL migration.
SQL SERVER – How to Automatically Generate SQL Server Documentation ?
A complete and precise documentation serves a good basis for developers and DBAs during their onboarding to get a general picture of the database they start working with. Creating such a documentation manually takes a lot of time and effort. So you seat for hours and hours digging through the database structure figuring out its functionality, data types stored therein, building relationship diagrams, etc. Moreover, every time changes are introduced to the database, you have to get back to it update the documentation by hand. This definitely feels like a burden and you keep delaying it until the last minute.
SQL SERVER 2016 – Trace Flag 1117 is Discontinued. Use the Options Provided with ALTER DATABASE
While doing performance tuning for one of my clients, I was looking at ERRORLOG files to understand about their system. I saw that trace flag 1117 and 1118 are enabled via startup parameter.
How to Find Number of Times Function Called in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #104
Question: How to Find Number of Times Function Called in SQL Server?