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SQL SERVER – Precision of SMALLDATETIME – A 1 Minute Precision

June 1, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts
I am myself surprised that I am writing this post today. I am going to present one of the very known facts of SQL Server SMALLDATETIME datatype. Even though this is a very well-known datatype, many a time, I have seen developers getting confused with precision of the SMALLDATETIME datatype.…
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SQLAuthority News – Monthly Roundup of Best SQL Posts

May 31, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
After receiving lots of requests from different readers for long time I have decided to write first monthly round up. If all of you like it I will continue writing the same every month. In fact, I really like the idea as I was able to go back and read…
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SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – Performance Counters Gathering using Powershell

May 30, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL
Powershell, SQL Utility

Laerte Junior has previously helped me personally to resolve the issue with Powershell installation on my computer. He did an awesome job to help. He has sent this another wonderful article regarding performance counter for readers of this blog. I really liked it and I expect all of you who are Powershell geeks, you will like the same as well.

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SQLAuthority News – SQL Funny Quotes

May 29, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQLAuthority News
SQL Humor, SQL Server

Here are few SQL Funny Quotes.

Q. What if your Dad loses his car keys?
A. ‘Parent keys not found!’

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SQL SERVER – Disabled Index and Update Statistics

May 28, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

When we try to update the statistics, it throws an error as if the clustered index is disabled. Now let us enable the clustered index only and attempt to update the statistics of the table right after that. Let us learn about Disabled Index and Update Statistics.

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SQL SERVER – DATE and TIME in SQL Server 2008

May 27, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

I was thinking about DATE and TIME datatypes in SQL Server 2008. I earlier wrote about the about best practices of the same. Recently I had written one of the scripts written for SQL Server 2008 had to run on SQL Server 2005 (don’t ask me why!), I had to convert the DATE and TIME datatypes to DATETIME. Let me run a quick demo for the same.

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SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Technology Evangelists and Evangelism

May 26, 2010
Pinal Dave
Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
MVP
This is the exact conversation that I had with three people during the recent SQL Server Public Training. Person 1: “Are you an SQL Server Evangelist?” Pinal : “No, but Vinod Kumar is.” Person 1: “Who are you?” Person 2: “He is Pinal, haha!” Person 1: “I know that, but…
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