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SQL SERVER – 2008 – Change Color of Status Bar of SSMS Query Editor

This is one very interesting issue which I have started to follow recently. Just like any other organization my company has many servers. Some are production and some are development. It is very much necessary that query which are written for developer environment does not run for production environment accidentally.…
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SQL SERVER – 2008 – 2005 – Find Longest Running Query – TSQL

UPDATE : Updated this query with bug fixed with one more enhancement SERVER – 2008 – 2005 – Find Longest Running Query – TSQL – Part 2.
Recently my company owner asked me to find which query is running longest. It was very interesting that I was not able to find any T-SQL script online which can give me this data directly. Finally, I wrote down very quick script which gives me T-SQL which has ran on server along with average time and maximum time of that T-SQL execution. As I keep on writing I needed to know when exactly logging was started for the same T-SQL so I had added Logging start time in the query as well.

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SQL SERVER – 2008 – Certification Path Complete Download PDF

Microsoft Certification are very important for any developer’s career. I personally have acquired MS certification before and while practicing for MS Certification I learned a lot personally. Developers who are interesting in upgrading themselves with Microsoft Certification must download certification path PDF.

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SQL SERVER – Fix : Msg 15151, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 Cannot drop the login ‘test’, because it does not exist or you do not have permission

I got following error when I was trying to delete user ‘test’ with ‘SA’ login. I was little surprised but then I tried to delete with the windows authenticated systemadmin account. Once again I got the same error. Msg 15151, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 Cannot drop the login…
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