SQL SERVER – Find Week of the Year Using DatePart Function

As I blog every single day, lots of people ask me if I have to build a calender for the same. The answer is yes, I do not have a personal calender and I keep a note of all the ideas in the calender. The next day when I get ready to blog, I use the same calender as a reference to blog about the same. Most of the time I plan out my week at a time. Let us learn about how to find week of the year using datepart function.

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SQL SERVER – Delete All Waiting Workflows in MSCRM to Speed Up Microsoft Dynamics

Last week, during performance tuning consultancy, I faced a very interesting situation when customer’s Microsoft Dynamics CRM was extremely slow. After quickly researched we found that they have a very high number of Mass Waiting Task Workflows in the system. They honestly did not care about those anymore as they were stuck there waiting for over a year and have no meaning at this point of time.

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SQL SERVER – Database Disaster Recovery Process

Many SQL Server DBAs are from time to time confronted with a disaster caused by unintentional or malicious changes on their database. Whatever the nature or intention of these changes are, they can cause great issues whether it was the data loss or a structure loss. With this in mind, it is important to start with the recovery process as soon as possible. Having a recovery scenario and solution for these situations prepared is also a great benefit, and is generally advised where possible. Whatever enhances our chance to recover in case of a disaster, and increases chances of successful and full recovery should be taken without any second thoughts. In this blog post we will learn about Database Disaster Recovery Process.

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SQL SERVER – GetRegKeyAccessMask : Could Not Get Registry Access Mask For Registry Key – SQL Server Cluster

I have been getting many requests from my HIRE-ME page and a few of them are getting change to my blog. This is the outcome of one of my clients who was having a strange issue. They were having 2 nodes SQL Server Cluster (NODE1 and NODE2) and SQL Server resource was not able to come online on NODE21but it was working fine when they failover to NODE2.

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