Interview Question of the Week #018 – Script to Remove Special Characters – Script to Parse Alpha Numerics

If you ask me – there are certain questions not appropriate for an interview as they are often very subjective. There are some questions, which really do not help to identify if the candidate has the necessary skills or not. Here is one such question, if you ask me in the…
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SQL SERVER – Recovering from Snapshots – Notes from the Field #078

[Note from Pinal]: This is a 78th episode of Notes from the Fields series. What do you do when data is deleted accidentally or you are facing disaster? Well, there are plenty of the things, you can do, but when in panic quite often people make mistakes which just intensify the disaster. Database snapshot…
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SQL SERVER – Script: Knowing Data and Log Files Are On the Same Drive

Last week it was wonderful to spend time at the GIDS conference to meet all the enthusiastic developers. Had fun preparing for the session and the number of people who walked to me and say they read this blog makes me really humble and motivated to write more. I love attending and presenting at these conferences because I get an opportunity to meet people and at many times able to answer real world problems. Let’s learn Script: Knowing Data and Log Files Are On the Same Drive.

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SQL SERVER – Collect and Analyze SQL Server Data Efficiently

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dbForge Event Profiler is one of the most useful SQL Server “build-in” tools. The Profiler records data associated with various SQL Server events for further analysis. This data is stored in a trace file that can later be analyzed or used to replay a specific series of steps when trying to diagnose SQL Server relates problems. The tool allows you to view communications between a client and SQL Server, and gives you an insight into its internal performance. To take full advantage of its potential, download dbForge Event Profiler for SQL Server for free now. Let us learn about Analyze SQL Server Data Efficiently.

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SQL SERVER – Using “High Performance” Power Plan for SQL Server

A lot of times, I have seen DBA’s and administrators have their own startup tasks that they perform when rebuilding or bringing a new server online. Some of these practices are powerful and are mean to enhance performance of the box that you have bought. Recently, I was at a customer location looking at what a typical Admin was doing and this step of his caught my attention. I couldn’t stop myself from blogging this because it was a simple, powerful and yet less appreciated setting available on the Server. Let us learn Power Plan for SQL Server.

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Interview Question of the Week #017 – Performance Comparison of Union vs Union All

Here is what I just learned from email. One of the very prestigious organization asks one of their candidate following questions – Question: If you have options to use Union or Union All – which one of the option will use keeping performance as a top most requirement for the query. Answer: Though…
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