It has been a great pleasure to visit Infosys Mysore for an MSDN session. I had previously visited Infosys Bangalore for Technical session. Please read the details of earlier visit SQLAuthority News – Notes from TechDays 2009 at Infosys, Bangalore. This event was held on Dec 10, 2009. I have…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Find Location of Data File Using T-SQL
While preparing for the training course of Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization and & Performance Tuning, I needed to find out where my database files are stored on my hard drive. It is when following script came in handy to find the location of the data file using T-SQL.Â
SQLAuthority News – 1200th Post – An Important Milestone
Today is the last day of 2009 and this is my 1200th post! This year had been a wonderful year for me. I was actively involved with the community, and there were a lot of occasions where I could work along with IT professionals to resolve their issues in projects.…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Get Date of All Weekdays or Weekends of the Year
Today’s article is created based on wonderful contribution from Tejas Shah. Tejas is very prominent SQL Expert and .NET wizard. He has answered the query of a reader on this blog who raised the following question: how to generate the date for all the Sundays in the upcoming year. Tejas…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Difference Temp Table and Table Variable – Effect of Transaction
Few days ago I wrote an article on the myth of table variable stored in the memory—it was very well received by the community. Read complete article here: SQL SERVER – Difference TempTable and Table Variable – TempTable in Memory a Myth. Today, I am going to write an article…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Download FREE SQL SERVER Express Edition and Service Pack 1
Here is the quick link from where SQL Server 2008 Express Edition can be downloaded. Download SQL Server 2008 Express Edition You can download it with many additional details as described in following image. Click on above link to go to page and select desired version. Additionally, please install SQL…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Whitepaper SQL Server 2008 Full-Text Search: Internals and Enhancements
SQL Server 2008 Full-Text Search: Internals and Enhancements SQL Server Technical Article Writer: Fernando Azpeitia Lopez, Microsoft Corp. Published: July 2008 Database systems must go beyond the traditional realm of relational data by covering an increasing amount and variety of unstructured and semistructured information, be it speech, documents, XML, bioinformatics,…
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