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SQL SERVER – Error while starting SQL Server logFileSize <= BlkToByteOffset ((ULONG)-1)

August 11, 2015

Recently I was playing with tempdb database in SQL Server and made some mistake. Due to that I was then not able to start SQL Service itself. Since it was an interesting problem so worth blogging about it. Let’s have a look at problem. Whenever there is a SQL startup…

SQL SERVER – Error: Msg 4305, Level 16, State 1 – The log in this backup set terminates at LSN, which is too early to apply to the database.

August 10, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

While working with transaction log backup restore or log shipping, you must have seen below error message. Msg 4305, Level 16, State 1, Line 47 The log in this backup set begins at LSN 33000000048000001, which is too recent to apply to the database. An earlier log backup that includes…

Interview Question of the Week #031 – How to do Case Sensitive SQL Query Search

August 9, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Collation

Question – How to do case sensitive search on any column of the table? Answer – If Column1 of Table1 has following values ‘CaseSearch, casesearch, CASESEARCH, CaSeSeArCh’, following statement will return you all the four records. SELECT Column1 FROM Table1 WHERE Column1 = 'casesearch' To make the query case sensitive and…

SQL SERVER – Adding File to Database in AlwaysOn Availability Group

August 8, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

AlwaysOn, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Writing some typical interview questions have been on my list always. I look for new ways of tricking the person and most importantly, some of the interview questions are designed to make sure the person has strong fundamentals. This blog is one such attempt to understand the basics of the AlwaysOn Availability Group.

SQL SERVER – How to do IF…THEN in SQL SERVER?

August 7, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Just another day I received following question – “Pinal, I am from DotNet expertise and I do not know how to convert the logic of IF…THEN into SQL statement, would you please help? ~Rajesh” I love simple questions as they have simple answers. In SQL Server, we can use a…

SQL SERVER – A Stored Procedure for Executing SSIS Packages in the SSIS Catalog – Notes from the Field #092

August 6, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore, SSIS

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is one of the most key essential part of the entire Business Intelligence (BI) story. It is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. In this episode of the Notes from the…

SQL SERVER – Knowing Which Database is Consuming My Memory

August 5, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Memory

I have been fortunate enough to be at conferences around the world and it is always refreshing to see how people come up with some really common yet never answered questions from time to time. The classic questions I get asked ever since I started working with databases and SQL…

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL – Error: SQL Server Could Not Spawn Lazy Writer Thread

August 4, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

I have a tendency to try out various settings on a typical SQL Server just to see how the behavior changes from time to time. While playing with affinity settings in SQL Server – I shot myself in the foot. It was interesting to reach how I came out of…

SQL SERVER – Increase Characters Displayed in Text Results

August 3, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server Management Studio

Working with various SQL Server options is always a great feeling. Every now and then I go to the Options page to get just the thing I want. When I wrote the blog post – SQL SERVER – Getting started and creating JSON using SQL Server 2016 I was expecting…

Interview Question of the Week #030 – Retrieve Last Inserted Identity of Record

August 2, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Identity

Question: What are the different ways of retrieving the identity of last inserted record? Which method do you prefer? Answer: There are many different ways to do that. Here are three different ways to retrieve the identity of the last inserted record. I personally use SCOPE_IDENTITY () to return the identity…