Encountering error messages and solving them is something I often do. I think each and every error we encounter is validating our understanding in using the software and how we make simple mistakes. Let us learn about what we should do when we are unable to drop login.
SQL SERVER – Error and Fix for Msg 1907 Cannot recreate index The new index definition does not match the constraint being enforced by the existing index
This particular blog post is around usage of Clustered ColumnStore Indexes and how one of my customer in a recent conversation brought this up to my notice. They were on SQL Server 2012 and were upgrading to SQL Server 2014 and were very much interested in the usage of Clustered…
Read MoreSQL SERVER 2016 – New T-SQL Functions – COMPRESS – DECOMPRESS
With every release of SQL Server, Microsoft has been adding enhancements to the product. Earlier I have written below blogs talking about new features/enhancements. Now I will write about features for SQL Server 2016 which are COMPRESS – DECOMPRESS.
SQL SERVER – The Best Time to Buy – Devart Christmas Price Fall
Have you missed out the deals you were hoping to grab on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? Good news! You still have time to save. 16 December 2015 — 16 January 2016 is your next big window of opportunity for many software products from Devart.
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…
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