[Note from Pinal]: This is a 125th episode of Notes from the Field series. Handing XML documents is not an easy task. Trust me till today I see lots of experts struggling when they have to deal with XML. In my early career I used to be scared with the XML as well. Well, now I have proper understanding of the XML documents and I am no longer worried about this subject.
In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Stuart Ainsworth explains about how to work with XML documents.
SQL SERVER 2016 – Management Studio Highlighting Current Line Option
With every new release, there is changes that are being made to the tools that support it. It is tough sometimes to keep up with the pace. I am always an old school guy and I try not to change the style that involves changes to the way things function. When I installed SQL Server 2016 Management Studio, there was something fresh about the IDE, but I was trying to get to terms to why I was feeling little weird. Let us learn about Highlighting Current Line Option in SSMS 2016.
Comparison – Logical Architecture between Oracle and SQL Server
Learning is a journey and that is something I love to keep in mind. Even after being so many years in the industry, I don’t stop learning from peers and people around me. This is the best way I can get better at something. I have been writing about the comparisons working with Oracle and SQL Server in the past and I personally thought this was a great way to learn something new by understanding the concepts of something that we always know. The learning is easy when we are able to make an analogy or metaphor as part of our learning. Do you guys ever use a similar approach while learning something that is completely new in your day-today life? Let us learn about Logical Architecture today.
SQL SERVER – Steps to Migrate Clustered Disk / LUN
This was a clustered instance, so we need to take care of dependency also. Here are the steps which I have outlined for Migrate Clustered Disk.
Primary Key and Null in SQL Server – Interview Question of the Week #071
Question: Can Primary Key on any table contain NULL values? Why? Answer: Primary key on any table in SQL Server can not contain a null value.
SQL SERVER – FIX: SQL Profiler Error – Cannot Retrieve Trace Definition for SQL Server Version
As soon as I opened profiler and clicked on “connect” button, I was welcomed with below the message box. This is one of the funniest error message which I have seen from long time. There is no message!!! Let us see how to fix SQL Profiler Error.
Hitting OK on above, came to below message.
The version shown in the message 13.0.900 is the version of my SQL instance (SQL Server 2016 CTP) on which I was connecting. Here is the text of the second error message.
SQL SERVER – Understanding FAILOVERCLUSTERROLLOWNERSHIP with SQL Server Cluster Rolling Upgrade
I started to hunt in the blog and saw there were a number of posts around (FAILOVERCLUSTERROLLOWNERSHIP) the cluster that caught my eyes:
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