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Aug6

SQL SERVER – SSMS: Memory Usage By Memory Optimized Objects Report

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Memory, SQL Reports, SQL Server Management Studio
4 Comments
At conferences and at speaking engagements at the local UG, there is one question that keeps on coming which I wish were never asked. The question around, “Why is SQL Server using up all the memory and not releasing even when idle?” Well, the answer can be long and with…
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Aug5

SQL SERVER – SSMS: Database Consistency History Report

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Reports, SQL Server Management Studio
3 Comments
Doctor and Database The last place I like to visit is always a hospital. With the monsoon season starting, intermittent rains, it has become sort of a routine to get a cycle of fever every other year (seriously I hate it). So when I visit my doctor, it is always…
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Aug4

SQL SERVER – SSMS: Backup and Restore Events Report

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Reports, SQL Server Management Studio
2 Comments
A DBA wears multiple hats and in fact does more than what an eye can see. One of the core task of a DBA is to take backups. This looks so trivial that most developers shrug this off as the only activity a DBA might be doing. I have huge…
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Aug3

Developer’s Life – Every Developer is a Captain America

Pinal Dave
SQL
Developer, Superhero
2 Comments

Captain America was first created as a comic book character in the 1940’s as a way to boost morale during World War II. Aimed at a children’s audience, his legacy faded away when the war ended. However, he has recently has a major reboot to become a popular movie character that deals with modern issues.

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Aug2

MySQL – Export the Resultset to CSV file

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Tips and Tricks
CSV, MySQL
7 Comments
In SQL Server, you can use BCP command to export the result set to a csv file. In MySQL too, You can export data from a table or result set as a csv file in many methods. Here are two methods. Method 1 : Make use of Work Bench If…
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Aug1

SQL SERVER – SSMS: Disk Usage Report

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Reports, SQL Server Management Studio
6 Comments
Let us start with humor! I think we the series on various reports, we come to a logical point. We covered all the reports at server level. This means the reports we saw were targeted towards activities that are related to instance level operations. These are mostly like how a…
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Jul31

Developer’s Life – Disaster Lessons – Notes from the Field #039

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Notes from the Field
No Comments
[Note from Pinal]: This is a 39th episode of Notes from the Field series. What is the best solution do you have when you encounter a disaster in your organization. Now many of you would answer that in this scenario you would have another standby machine or alternative which you…
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Memory Usage By Memory Optimized Objects Report

SQL SERVER – SSMS: Database Consistency History Report

SQL SERVER – SSMS: Backup and Restore Events Report

Developer’s Life – Every Developer is a Captain America

MySQL – Export the Resultset to CSV file

SQL SERVER – SSMS: Disk Usage Report

Developer’s Life – Disaster Lessons – Notes from the Field #039

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Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 109 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

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