Pinal Dave - SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

Interview Question of the Week #031 – How to do Case Sensitive SQL Query Search

August 9, 2015

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Question – How to do case sensitive search on any column of the table? Answer – If Column1 of Table1 has following values ‘CaseSearch, casesearch, CASESEARCH, CaSeSeArCh’, following statement will return you all the four records. SELECT Column1 FROM Table1 WHERE Column1 = 'casesearch' To make the query case sensitive and…

SQL SERVER – Adding File to Database in AlwaysOn Availability Group

August 8, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

AlwaysOn, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Writing some typical interview questions have been on my list always. I look for new ways of tricking the person and most importantly, some of the interview questions are designed to make sure the person has strong fundamentals. This blog is one such attempt to understand the basics of the AlwaysOn Availability Group.

SQL SERVER – How to do IF…THEN in SQL SERVER?

August 7, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Just another day I received following question – “Pinal, I am from DotNet expertise and I do not know how to convert the logic of IF…THEN into SQL statement, would you please help? ~Rajesh” I love simple questions as they have simple answers. In SQL Server, we can use a…

SQL SERVER – A Stored Procedure for Executing SSIS Packages in the SSIS Catalog – Notes from the Field #092

August 6, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore, SSIS

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is one of the most key essential part of the entire Business Intelligence (BI) story. It is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. In this episode of the Notes from the…

SQL SERVER – Knowing Which Database is Consuming My Memory

August 5, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Memory

I have been fortunate enough to be at conferences around the world and it is always refreshing to see how people come up with some really common yet never answered questions from time to time. The classic questions I get asked ever since I started working with databases and SQL…

SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL – Error: SQL Server Could Not Spawn Lazy Writer Thread

August 4, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

I have a tendency to try out various settings on a typical SQL Server just to see how the behavior changes from time to time. While playing with affinity settings in SQL Server – I shot myself in the foot. It was interesting to reach how I came out of…

SQL SERVER – Increase Characters Displayed in Text Results

August 3, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server Management Studio

Working with various SQL Server options is always a great feeling. Every now and then I go to the Options page to get just the thing I want. When I wrote the blog post – SQL SERVER – Getting started and creating JSON using SQL Server 2016 I was expecting…