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.
When was Domain Account Password Changed in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #093
If you are a DBA for quite some time, then at least once you must have encountered below error about Domain Account Password.
Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure. I have already written a blog about this long ago.
SQL SERVER – Error: 26014, Severity: 16. Unable to Load User Specified Certificate
Recently I was consulting a customer and they had plans to change certificate used by SQL Server. After making changes to certificate, we found that we were not able to start the SQL Server Service. Let us learn about how to fix error 26014 about unable to load User Specified Certificate.
SQL Server – Understanding Connection Timeouts and Query Timeouts
Have you ever got into a situation wherein you feel you see something and work for a solution in a completely opposite direction? Recently I was out of the country for a session and at the breakfast table I found a dark red bottle of ketchup which I used for my sandwich. Lesser did I know it was actually a spicy sauce. And on closer look this time, I found the mistake I did and how I ruined my whole breakfast. These are times when you oversee something which looks like one and you land up as something completely different. This blog post we will be Understanding Connection Timeouts and Query Timeouts.
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