[Note from Pinal]: This is an 86th episode of Notes from the Fields series. Deadlock is very annoying when they happen in our database. In my early career my biggest frustration was I had no idea why the deadlocks are happening and because I did not know the root cause, I was never able to solve them. As time passed by, now I have a better understanding of this situation.
SQL SERVER – FIX – Export Error – ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine
Working with Excel files can always be of great interest. I have not seen a reporting solution in the world that doesn’t give an option to export to excel. If you are talking about two separate solutions and you want to export and import, then such options can be of…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – PowerShell to Count Number of VLFs in SQL Server
If you are a seasoned DBA, then the conversations and monitoring VLFs is something you are already doing. To learn about the basics of VLF, check my earlier blog at: SQL SERVER – Detect Virtual Log Files (VLF) in LDF. Having a large number of VLFs has a performance impact and there are a number of blogs that discuss the same. As a DBA in this blog I thought of showing a simple script that will help identifying the number of VLFs available inside a SQL Server instance or a number of instances.
SQL SERVER – Evaluation Period Has Expired – How to Activate SQL Server?
Sometimes we are in a hurry that we forget activities that are pending. A typical example would be like walking into a room and we keep thinking about why we were there in the first place. Isn’t that common? Or I think age is catching on me for sure. Some…
Read MoreInterview Question of the Week #025 – How to Implement Paging in SQL Server?
Here is a very popular question when SQL Server interview consists of live coding example. Question: How to implement paging in SQL Server? Explain with the help of script. Answer: Here is the script to implemented paging in SQL Server 2005. USE AdventureWorks GO DECLARE @StartRow INT DECLARE @EndRow INT…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Using PowerShell and Native Client to run queries in SQL Server
I have been getting my hands dirty working with PowerShell commands for a fun learning experience and few have made to this blog. The after effect of this is that I have been pinged for few queries on them too. Recently I got a call from one of my friend…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Database Snapshots and Replica Causing Write Delays
For folks who have not worked with SQL Server Database snapshot feature, please refer to the blog I wrote sometime back (SQL SERVER – 2008 – Introduction to Snapshot Database – Restore From Snapshot). I am giving this reference because some might not be aware of this powerful capability with…
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