I recently came across an organization who had very interesting infrastructure setup. Their business domains is analytics. They process millions of the records and how many clients who have case sensitive tags on their server which they want to measure. However, there are many places they do not want to care about case sensitivity. They had peta bytes of the data on their server. Let us learn about Creating Database with Different Collation on Server.
Whenever I am suggesting something which changes how database works or the existing status of the database, my suggestion along with it is to take the database backup before making such changes. If the changes are in configurations, that can be easily revert but if the changes are such that it will impact the data, I always suggest to take backup. The nature of this blog is such that we have readership from readers with different expertise, some are experts and some are novice.
Some questions never get old. Let me list a few of them. As the year 2012 is about to end, today I will talk about three of the most asked questions to me in an email. Let us learn about restoring databases.
Readers of this blog will know that I recently attended SQL Server (PASS) Summit 2012. There were, of course, a lot of fascinating subjects and people, but let me talk about one of my favorites right now. Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of the Data Platform group at Microsoft, announced that the new version of SQL Server will include a feature called “Hekaton.” Hekaton is Greek for “hundreds,” and it was given this name for its ability to speed up database function 100x (possibly). It certainly increases application speed by 10x and nearly 50x for new, optimized applications.
This is the 8th episode of the weekly series of memory lane. Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here with additional notes below it. My favorite articles this time are about the solution when the log file very large as well as T-SQL script to find details about TempDB. Let me know which one of the following is your favorite article from memory lane.