Question: How Default Value and Nullable Column works together for a single table?
SQL SERVER – MSDB Database Uncontrolled Growth Due to Queue_messages. How to Clear All Messages From a Queue?
Received an email “Need your urgent help On Demand, our MSDB Database has grown too big and we need help to check our MSDB.” I have been an independent consultant for a while and one of the services I provide is “On Demand (50 minutes)” service. This service is very helpful for organizations who are in need immediate help with their performance tuning issue. Though, I have set working ours for my regular clients, every single day, I keep two hours available for this particular offering. This way, I can make sure that anyone who urgently needs my help, can avail the same. Click here to read more about it.
SQL SERVER – Alternative of Log Shipping in Simple Recovery Model
The blog topic might seem controversial and doesn’t go well with definition of log shipping features. Read it again. The blog has an alternative way to set up something “similar” to log-shipping. If the database is in simple recovery model, then we can’t take transaction log backups and hence no log shipping possible.
SQL Server – How to Get Column Names From a Specific Table?
Question: How to get column names from a specific table in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Incorrect Results with Decimal
It has been a while we have seen a puzzle on this blog and I keep on receiving emails and comments that you all would love to see one more puzzle. Let us see a new puzzle “Incorrect Results with Decimal”.
MySQL – Fix – Error – Your Password does not Satisfy the Current Policy Requirements
Just the other day I received an email from a MySQL user who has been struggling to set up his password due to the current policy requirements in MySQL. Let us see how we can identify what is his root cause and how to fix the issue with password security.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3009, Level 16 – Could not Insert a Backup or Restore History Detail Record in the msdb Database
As most of my blogs, this blog is also an outcome of an interesting engagement with a client. While trying to help one of my clients to recover from a hardware failure, I learned something about a trace flag. Let us learn about backup or restore history.
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