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SQL SERVER – T-SQL Window Function Framing and Performance – Notes from the Field #103

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Notes from the Field, SQL Function
[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Kathi Kellenberger explains about T-SQL Over clause. Kathi is an amazing instructor, she was the SQL author I have read in my early career. The reason, I love SQL Server because her writing has instigated love for this…
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SQL SERVER – Looking Inside SQL Complete – Advantages of Intellisense Features

Pinal Dave
SQL
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Recently SQL Complete add-in was updated, which I use when writing SQL queries in SSMS. In the product history I saw that a several features were added, such as code refactoring or automatic semicolon insertion. However, in this post I do not want to talk about them. I have noticed a new logic for metadata queries, which significantly accelerated my work with database objects. So I decided to look inside SQL Complete… to understand how it works and what changed…. Let us learn about Advantages of Intellisense Features.

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Interview Question of the Week #045 – How to Do Case Sensitive Search?

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
One of my popular questions which helps me to understand lots of understanding of SQL by SQL developer. Question: How doing a case sensitive search in SQL Server? Answer: If Column1 of Table1 has following values ‘CaseSearch, casesearch, CASESEARCH, CaSeSeArCh’, following statement will return you all the four records. SELECT…
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SQL SERVER – Installation Failed With Error – Wait on the Database Engine Recovery Handle Failed

Pinal Dave
SQL
SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Installation

You might have seen on Facebook that I have completed the new setup of my machines. Since I use VMs to do my tests. To have a domain, I made a VM as domain controller and another as a member server. Next step was to install SQL Server and by mistake, I have run the setup of SQL on a domain controller. As per Microsoft documentation they don’t recommend installing SQL on the domain controller and there is a warning in SQL Setup. Let us learn about how to fix Installation Failed With Error.

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