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Interview Question of the Week #050 – Query to Retrieve Second Highest Salary of Employee
There are some questions which never gets old and I keep on seeing them again and again every time I participate in the interview to help hire qualified Developers and DBA. Here is another popular question which I often see. Question: Write a query to retrieve Second (or Nth) highest…
Read MoreMySQL – Date and Time Related System Functions
MySQL supports lot of functions to get current date and time. The following are some of the system functions. There are two functions to get current date SELECT curdate(),current_date(); There are two functions to get current time SELECT curtime(),current_time(); There are two functions to get current date along with time…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Recompiling InMemory OLTP with SQL Server 2016
I wrote an intetresting trivia about InMemory OLTP code previously, SQL SERVER – How to take InMemory – OLTP FileGroup Offline?. Post this one of the reader was curious enough to ask me a counter question. He wrote back stating the recovery of the same is easy but he wanted…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – How to Create a Readable Secondary Server in SQL Server Standard – Notes from the Field #107
[Notes from Pinal]: The basic nature of human is greedy. When we get one thing which we desire the next thing. In the early world of SQL Server we got a secondary server as a backup or high availability. In earlier times the secondary server was not readable, it just served as a backup. At this point of time our human nature kicked in and we want to get more from the server, which was just sitting there most of the time. We wanted to make our secondary server readable. This is when I reached out to Kenneth and asked him what can we do to make our secondary server as a readable.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server After Patching
I have an issue on my UAT environment. I was unable to start the SQL server 2008 R2 instance after applying SP1. Let us learm more about it.
SQL SERVER – Server Side and Client Side Trace
I don’t know where to start, I get to learn things from the most unusual of places. Most of the learnings is based on challenging the statuesque of our understanding. During my interactions with various DBAs one of the common misunderstanding is about server side and client side trace. One…
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