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Feb10

SQL SERVER – Migration of SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring to AlwaysOn Availability Group

Pinal Dave
SQL
AlwaysOn, SQL Server
2 Comments

Migration of SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring to AlwaysOn Availability group can get a bit tricky if you’re not quite familiar with the workings of SQL Server 2012. This article gives you a better idea about the migration process of database mirroring to AlwaysON Availability group.

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Feb9

Developers – A Fun List of Things Related to Developer

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
No Comments
Earlier in the month of December 2013, I have written few articles which were related to the Developer and fun stuff. In those articles I had asked if I have missed anything, which I should have in the article and missed or not. I have got quite a few suggestions…
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Feb8

SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator – Part 2

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts
7 Comments
This is a follow up, puzzle of SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with BitWise Operator. Lots of people really like the earlier puzzle where I have used Bit Wise Operator AND and build a simple puzzle. Today we are going to use another bit wise operator – OR. First execute…
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Feb7

SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
20 Comments
It has been a long time since we have puzzle on this blog so let us have a quick puzzle this Friday. It is based on Bit Wise Operator and very simple if you know those operators. We will guess the output of the SQL script. For example, here is…
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Feb6

SQL SERVER – Learning SSIS – Where Do I Start? – Notes from the Field #014

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore
12 Comments
[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is one of the most key essential part of the entire Business Intelligence (BI) story. It is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. As wikipedia says – It features…
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Feb5

SQL SERVER – Retrieve All the Data from VARCHAR(MAX) Column

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
14 Comments
In this blog post we will discuss a very common problem which developer who are working with SQL Server Management Studio and VARCHAR(MAX) Datatype faces. In database table if you have over 8200 characters in a column with datatype VARCHAR (MAX) it is not easy to display them in SSMS.…
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Feb4

MySQL – Learning Online MySQL Workbench Guided Tour – Pluralsight Course

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Tips and Tricks
MySQL
No Comments
MySQL Workbench is the default IDE for MySQL and the most popular IDE among MySQL Developers and Administrator. There are three major sections in MySQL Workbench. 1) Developement – Developer can perform various activities related to SQL development in this area. For example – building queries, executing queries, etc 2)…
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SQL SERVER – Migration of SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring to AlwaysOn Availability Group

Developers – A Fun List of Things Related to Developer

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SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator – Part 2

SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator

SQL SERVER – Learning SSIS – Where Do I Start? – Notes from the Field #014

SQL SERVER – Retrieve All the Data from VARCHAR(MAX) Column

MySQL – Learning Online MySQL Workbench Guided Tour – Pluralsight Course

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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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