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Interview Question of the Week #004 – List All Columns and Their Data Type for a View

January 25, 2015

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

Earlier this week I wrote a blog about finding stored procedure parameters and their data types. After that blog I received few emails from my blog readers asking for similar script for a view. I asked them what did they like about the script and they said that it gives us…

SQL SERVER – How to Bind Resource Governor for InMemory Enabled Databases?

January 24, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Resource Governor

I have done a number of courses for Pluralsight. Last year when SQL Server 2014 was released, I planned to do a session on the same. The course SQL Server 2014 Administration New Features was a lot of hardwork but it did give me a chance to learn something new…

SQL SERVER – Who is Consuming my TempDB Now?

January 23, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL TempDB

Off late my love for TempDB and writing on topics of tempDB has been a great learning experience. The more I work with tempDB, the more fascinated I am. TempDb is being used by a number of operations inside SQL Server, let me list some of them here: Temporary user…

SQL SERVER – The DBA goes to MARS – Maintenance, Architecture, Research and Support – Notes from the Field #063

January 22, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Server Security

[Note from Pinal]: This is a 63rdth episode of Notes from the Field series. Storytelling is an art very few have mastered in their life. When I requested Stuart to share his ideas about his famous blog about MARS, I really had not expected the response which I have received in…

SQL SERVER – Backups are Non-negotiable Lifeline for DBAs

January 21, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Idera

I have had my share of DBA friends who have told me a number of horror stories from their experiences. Thinking back, these look like moments to laugh away but there are some serious learnings we get from these experiences. I am a personal believer of learning something in everything…

SQL SERVER – How DBAs Have to be Proactive in Identifying and Fixing Problems Before They Happen

January 20, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Dell

In real life our dear ones always love to have surprises. If we do things even before they can think, we are in for some fun for rest of the days/weeks. I vividly remember a conversation with my daughter in recent past. I had made a deal to get her…

SQL SERVER – How to Find Weak Passwords Using T-SQL?

January 19, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server Security

Recently one of my blog reader emailed me below question. Hi Pinal, Need your urgent help. In recent past, we have been attacked by the hacker who was able to get in to our SQL Server via sysadmin account and made big damage to our data. To make sure it…

Interview Question of the Week #003 – How to Write Script for Database Cursor?

January 18, 2015

Pinal Dave

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

Just another day I heard a senior DBA discussing advantages and disadvantages of the cursor. Well, personally I am a firm believer of the set based operations. However, there are few places where cursors are the only solutions. It is quite possible that different experts have different opinion about cursor;…

SQL SERVER – Watching Table Variable Data in TempDB

January 17, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

MySQL

I cannot get enough of working with TempDB and the learning never stops. Previously, when I wrote about SQL SERVER – Is tempDB behaving like a Normal DB?, SQL SERVER – Inside Temp Table Object Creation and Difference TempTable and Table Variable – TempTable in Memory a Myth many did…

SQL SERVER – Configuration and Performance of SQL Server is Now Easy to Master

January 16, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Confio

This is one of the toughest topics to address, and I am always looking at new tools that can help me learn and understand SQL Server better. In many cases, I fall back to MSDN documentation and official statements from the Microsoft site because a lot of R&D generally has…