NOTE: This was my experiment with database corruption. If your database is corrupted, you should contact professionals who do this as their primary job. Always make sure that you do experiments on the copy of your database on your development server, rather than on production server. Let us learn about Recover Database Corruption.
SQL SERVER – Migration of SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring to AlwaysOn Availability Group
Migration of SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring to AlwaysOn Availability group can get a bit tricky if you’re not quite familiar with the workings of SQL Server 2012. This article gives you a better idea about the migration process of database mirroring to AlwaysON Availability group.
Developers – A Fun List of Things Related to Developer
Earlier in the month of December 2013, I have written few articles which were related to the Developer and fun stuff. In those articles I had asked if I have missed anything, which I should have in the article and missed or not. I have got quite a few suggestions…
Read MoreSQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator – Part 2
This is a follow up, puzzle of SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with BitWise Operator. Lots of people really like the earlier puzzle where I have used Bit Wise Operator AND and build a simple puzzle. Today we are going to use another bit wise operator – OR. First execute…
Read MoreSQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator
It has been a long time since we have puzzle on this blog so let us have a quick puzzle this Friday. It is based on Bit Wise Operator and very simple if you know those operators. We will guess the output of the SQL script. For example, here is…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Learning SSIS – Where Do I Start? – Notes from the Field #014
[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. As wikipedia says – It features…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Retrieve All the Data from VARCHAR(MAX) Column
In this blog post we will discuss a very common problem which developer who are working with SQL Server Management Studio and VARCHAR(MAX) Datatype faces. In database table if you have over 8200 characters in a column with datatype VARCHAR (MAX) it is not easy to display them in SSMS.…
Read MoreMySQL – Learning Online MySQL Workbench Guided Tour – Pluralsight Course
MySQL Workbench is the default IDE for MySQL and the most popular IDE among MySQL Developers and Administrator. There are three major sections in MySQL Workbench. 1) Developement – Developer can perform various activities related to SQL development in this area. For example – building queries, executing queries, etc 2)…
Read More9 Things You Should be Doing with Your Backups – Backup Tips – SQL Server Backup Tips
SQL Server backups are essential for any business that store their data in SQL Server. The following is a list of best practices you should be following if you are the person in charge with maintaining your organization’s databases. Let us see some of the SQL Server Backup Tips.
MySQL – Download MySQL Workbench Shortcut in PDF
MySQL Workbench is default IDE for MySQL and it is available to download for free on MySQL’s website. It is a fully featured IDE with three major sections. 1) SQL Development 2) SQL Administration and 3) Data Modeling. Each section is quite big on its own. Â There are plenty of…
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