If you have ever interacted with me or taken my services, you would notice that I always ask for ERRORLOG in almost all of my contact with my client. Once of my friend contacted me and when I asked for ERRORLOG, he informed that there is no ERRORLOG file and SQL is not getting started. I suggested him that we should analyze event log for further details, after interestingly, we found the following details in the event 17058 about initerrlog: Could not Open Error Log File.
SQL SERVER – DMVs to Detect Performance Problems in SQL Server – Notes from the Field #135
[Notes from Pinal]: Performance tuning is a complex subject, SQL SERVER – DMVs to Detect Performance Problems in SQL Server.
SQL Complete – Smart Code Completion and SQL Formatting
A week ago, I saw a notification about the release of dbForge SQL Complete 5.5. As a long-time user of this product, I have updated to the new version. A week later I decided to share my impressions of the new version of SQL Complete.
SQL SERVER – Setting Firewall Settings With Azure SQL Server VMs
Recently I had a session around using SQL Server on Azure and during this session one of the questions was to access the SQL Server in a Hybrid Setup. This is a typical scenario wherein the developer was requesting to connect to the SQL Server running on a VM from his application that was sitting inside his environment. Though there were specific steps that needed to be taken, he was getting some error. Let us learn about how to setup firewall with Azure SQL Server VMs.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Create Listener for AlwaysOn Availability Group in Azure via Template Deployment
Recently I was trying to help a customer who was deploying AlwaysOn Availability Group in Microsoft Azure via template deployment. The template was failing with below error
Does Dropping Primary Key Drop Clustered Index on the Same Column? – Interview Question of the Week #082
Question: When we drop primary key on the column, does it automatically drop a clustered index on the same column (if created)?
Answer: This is one of the most popular questions, whenever I ask this to any candidate, they usually give an answer in yes or no. However, if I ask them follow up question to confirm, I have noticed most of the time they change the reply or accept that they really do not know the answer. It is totally fine. As when I was beginning with SQL, I even did not know the answer of it. I learn doing various experiments and doing various interviews.
Life Lessons – Understanding Your Customer
A couple of weeks back, I wrote a blog around – Life Lessons – Are There Rules for Interacting With Customers. This has been just to write out what I had in mind and how I approached a customer in general. These are not rules written on stone, but are more of a methodology which I have made for my own self when interacting with customers. Trust me on this, over time you mature and tune this whole process while interacting with customers.
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