I do apply patches to my SQL instances as and when they are released by Microsoft. This is important because I always feel keeping the bits up-to-date is essential because I don’t want to get infected as I travel quite a bit. Since I play a lot with my SQL Server, there are more chances that things are going to break sooner than your production server. Here is one such incident. Let us learn about how to fix script level upgrade.
SQL SERVER – 2016 Error Reasons: Msg 10778, Level 16 Foreign key relationships between memory optimized tables and non-memory optimized tables are not supported
When I was writing the blog SQL SERVER 2016 – InMemory OLTP support for Foreign Key, it felt like a great addition to SQL Server. I felt there must be something that I might be missing as the obvious. I was not wrong in that feeling too. One of my…
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SQL SERVER – Fixing Annoying Network Binding Order Error – Notes from the Field #112
[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Ryan Adams explains a very critical error user receive when binding network error. Ryan is one guy who spends more time with real world issues with SQL Server than anything else. He has mastered the art of resolving complex errors and document them so easily that one can’t find anywhere else. In this blog post Ryan addresses a very interesting error related to binding network error. Read the experience of Ryan in her own words.
SQL SERVER – Add failover cluster node fails with “number of cluster nodes supported for edition”
A lot of my blog readers contact me via comments and I try my best to reply to all of them. Sometimes issue is so interesting that I ask them to contact via email. This blog is result of such an interaction. Asif (name anonymized) was trying to Add third…
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SQL SERVER – Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation
Today we are going to learn about how to fix the error: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to the completion of the operation.
SQL SERVER – Why is My Query Switching to Row Processing and Not Doing Batch Processing?
Some of the learnings can lead to another exploration when someone does stump you with something you didn’t know. To understand the basics of batch mode and row mode, read the blog SQL SERVER – ColumnStore Index – Batch Mode vs Row Mode where I have explained the concepts. This…
Read MoreInterview Question of the Week #055 – How to Convert ASCII to DECIMAL or DECIMAL to ASCII?
Question: How do you convert ASCII to DECIMAL or DECIMAL to ASCII? Answer: ASCII – Returns the ASCII code value of the leftmost character of a character expression. CHAR – Fixed-length non-Unicode character data with length of n bytes. Examples: --Decimal to ASCII SELECT CHAR(80)+CHAR(73)+CHAR(78)+CHAR(65)+CHAR(76) ASSQLAuthorityAuthor GO --ASCII to Decimal…
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