In a recent interview when the interviewer asked interview that TempDB can be moved to a different drive, Â the candidate was extremely surprised. For the benefits of the interviewee who did not know the answer, I have written this blog post. Question: How to move TempDB to another drive? Answer:…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Resource Governor and Database Mapping
Recently in my trip to US for SQLPass, I had a unique opportunity to meet a number of attendees for my session. The session was well received and I got some great feedbacks. I loved the recent trip and it was a great experience for me to learn and prepare…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – 2016 – Opening JSON with OPENJSON()
The first blog I wrote about JSON with SQL Server 2016 was to get a valid JSON output from relational tables. You can read that again from: SQL SERVER – Getting started and creating JSON using SQL Server 2016. In this blog, we will try to get to the next…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – XEvents to Find Cardinality Estimation Issues
Ever since SQL Server 2014 brought the new Cardinality estimates, there have been a number of blogs to talk about them. Even here, I wrote a quite a few blogs about this very subject. SQL SERVER – How to Force New Cardinality Estimation or Old Cardinality Estimation SQL SERVER –…
Read MoreSQL Server – T-SQL Enhancement “Drop if Exists” clause
I was reading through some of the enhancements introduced with SQL Server 2016 and I stumbled upon an interesting addition. The T-SQL construct introduced has been something very common and on the pending request for years I suppose.
SQL SERVER – Practical Tips to Reduce SQL Server Database Table Size – Experts Opinion
I am one of those fortunate people who has friends everywhere in the world. Syrovatchenko Sergey is one of my good friends who is an expert on SQL Server. When we met a few days ago in one of the event, we end up discussing about practical tips to reduce SQL Server database table size. Upon returning home, I found Sergey has sent me an amazing article on this subject. It is beautifully written article and I enjoyed it very much. Let us read what Sergey has to say about this subject in his own words.

