Pinal Dave - SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

SQL SERVER – Prevent Constraint to Allow NULL

April 21, 2011

With naked eyes, we often spot the evident problems but the specific details are missed many a time. Something similar happened recently. One of the blog readers sent me an email asking about a bug in how CHECK CONSTRAINT works. He suggested that check constraint accepts NULL even though the…

SQLAuthority News – Last 5 Days to WIN Windows Phone 7 – 140 Words to Win

April 20, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

You can win Windows 7 Phone by writing only 140 Characters. You need to leave a comment over here: SQLAuthority News – Win Windows Phone from Idera in 140 Characters – A Cartoon Challenge of SQL over here. There are so far around 150 comments and I believe that chances of…

SQLAuthority News – Sudden Death of SSD on my Laptop – A Warning for SSD Users

April 19, 2011

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

The solid state drive on my personal laptop just died. Here’s the story. I have a DELL XPS laptop which is now 2.5 years old. The laptop had demonstrated no issues. About 6 months ago, I decided to upgrade the hard drive to solid state drive. There was a lot…

SQL SERVER – Speaking on T-SQL Worst Practices at Great Indian Developer Summit 2011 – Bangalore

April 18, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts

Presenting in front of techies is always fun. I will be speaking at Great Indian Developer Summit 2011 – Bangalore on April 19, 2011. Here is the details of my session: Session Title:“What did I do?” – T-SQL Worst Practices “Oh My God! What did I do?” Chances are you…

SQL SERVER – Applying NOLOCK Hint at Query Level – NOLOCK for whole Transaction

April 17, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts

Just received very interesting question in email: “How do I apply NOLOCK hint to my whole query. I know that I can use NOLOCK at every table level but I have many tables in my query and I want to apply the same to all the tables. I want to…

SQL SERVER – Making Database to Read Only – Changing Database to Read/Write

April 16, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Backup, SQL Restore, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

I recently received the following comments on my earlier blog about Making database to read only.

“Today i was trying to attach the (MDF,NDF,LDF ) sql server 2008 database which i have received from my client. After attachment the database status is showing (Read-Only) (Eg.database name (Read-Only). How do i make to normal mode for the data updation. is there any query available to resolve this problem. Your help will be highly helpful.”

Let’s learn Making Database to Read Only and Changing Database to Read/Write.

SQL SERVER – Finding Location of Log File when Primary Datafile is Crashed

April 15, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts

My friend and SQL Expert Vinod Kumar asked a very interesting question in his latest blog post. Quick Quiz:Do you need the primary data file available to backup your transaction log after a crash? This question can have multiple answers. While he asked the question on blog, I was sitting…