A very common question I often see users not sure about the answer. This is indeed a tricky question, but a very simple one. If I am the interviewer, I may ask this question to the user, but if they do not know the answer of this question, I would not give any negative remarks to interviewee. I think it is even old school to even ask these kind of questions. It has been long since I have stopped asking this question, once in a while, I still see this question being asked by my fellow colleagues. Well, let us revisit the age old question again about the fastest way to display code of any stored procedure.
PowerShell – Tip: How to Format PowerShell Script Output?
I have been writing on various ways of working with PowerShell and how to connect to SQL Server. Personally, when I see text on command prompt it is quite a mess and very difficult to decipher the same. If you play around and look at various blog posts, they show some interesting outputs even though they work to format PowerShell.
PowerShell Scripts – get-process with SQL Server process
Working with powershell scripts can be interesting. I have in the past shown a number of such scripts that we can use with SQL Server. In this blog, I was playing around understanding how I can use the get-process commandlet and how it can be used with SQL Server. This exploration and playing around has got me to write this rather simple yet something useful blog that you might use in your environments.
SQL SERVER – How to Avoid Triggers for Multiple Row Operations in a Table
Customers have a unique way to give you challenges that you never faced. It was one of those evenings that I was working late night on some SQL activity when I received a mail from one of my very old customers. It is rare that I get a ping from them and I was surprised at what had gone wrong. As I started to chat with them, he didn’t know I had recently moved to consulting. This got him double excited and I was unaware to why such a reaction. Your best customers are your best well-wishers too. Let us read about How to Avoid Triggers for Multiple Row Operations in a Table.
SQL SERVER Management Studio – Why I am Seeing White Icon Instead of Green or Red?
One of my clients faced a strange situation. She was using SQL Server Management Studio and was not seeing SQL server and SQL Agent status. It was showing white circle. When she would right click the instance, the options of Start, Stop and Resume were disabled. She also said that she is having SysAdmin permissions in SQL Server (logging using the SA account).
Creating and Running an SQL Server Unit Test – Best Ways to Test SQL Queries
I hope it is no secret that testing of written code is as important as writing the code itself, and sometimes even more important. Writing unit test for C#/Java/…code coverage is the responsibility of each software developer.
However, there is not always an opportunity to use autotests. For example, until recently, there were no good computer-aided testing systems for SQL Server, and many people had to create self-made products that were expensive to support and develop. To tell the truth, I was doing that too.
SQL SERVER – Database going to Recovery Pending Automatically and Coming Back
I love connecting community via various channels. One of my clients explained an interesting issue to me. He explained that he has a production database which is going to Recovery Pending state by itself and without any user intervention, it’s coming back as well.
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