Pinal Dave - SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert

SQL SERVER – Difference Between Update Lock and Exclusive Lock

February 15, 2010

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

I have often got this question on this blog as well in different SQL Training. What is the difference between Update Lock and Exclusive Lock? When Exclusive Lock is on any processes no other lock can be placed on that row or table. Every other process have to wait till…

SQLAuthority News – SuperFlow for Creating SRS Report Models in Configuration Manager 2007

February 14, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Documentation, SQL Download

Note : Download SuperFlow for Creating SRS Report Models in Configuration Manager 2007 by Microsoft The SuperFlow interactive content model provides a structured and interactive interface for viewing documentation. Each SuperFlow includes comprehensive information about a specific dataflow, workflow, or process. Depending on the focus of the SuperFlow, you will…

SQLAuthority News – Download SQL Server 2008 Express Datasheet

February 13, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Server Express

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Express is a free edition of SQL Server ideal for learning, developing and powering desktop and small server applications and for redistribution by ISVs. Download SQL Server 2008 Express Datasheet Abstract courtesy : Microsoft Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

SQLAuthority News – Ahmedabad Community Tech Days – Jan 30, 2010 – Huge Success

February 12, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQLAuthority Author Visit

Ahmedabad Community Tech Days was held on Jan 30, 2010 at Bhaikaka Hall. This event was very received well and attended by a large number of technology enthusiasts and a number of TOP speakers from various technologies. During this event Pinal Dave (myself) and Jacob Sebastian had decided to do…

SQL SERVER – ALTER DATABASE dbname SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

February 11, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts

I have recently been conducting lots of training on SQL Server technology. During these trainings, I quite often create new databases and drop them as well. Many times, I am not able to drop the database as one of my instances might be using the database. As I am working…

SQLAuthority News – Converting a Delimited String of Values into Columns

February 10, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL String, SQL XML

This blog post is about two great bloggers and their excellent series of blog posts. It was quite unusual to see two bloggers posting articles that are supporting each other and constantly improving the articles to the next level. Two blogs which I am going to mention here are as…

SQL SERVER – Brief Note about StreamInsight – What is StreamInsight

February 9, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

DBA, SQL Documentation

StreamInsight is a new event processing platform introduced in upcoming version SQL Server 2008 R2. Similar to other components such as SSIS, SSAS or Service Broker, it also needs to be installed along with the SQL Server. Up to SQL Server 2005, Microsoft’s main focus on SQL Server was to…