A few days ago I was visiting a large Database Shop and I happened to meet quite a few DBAs there. After my session was over we all went to the company’s cafe for a quick coffee. While having a coffee in the relaxed environment, I shared details about my recent vacation with my family. After sharing a quick story of my vacation, I asked the DBAs around me about their own vacations. To my surprise many of the DBA’s have not taken a holiday for quite a some time. Upon asking why they have not taken holiday the answer was simple (and as expected) – due to the job. Let us read about Monitoring Server.
SQL SERVER – Rename a Table Name Containing [ or ] Identifier in the Name – Part 2
Yesterday I posted article where we discussed how to rename a table name where identifier is part of the tablename. Read the blog post Rename a Table Name Containing [ or ] in the Name – Identifier in the Table Name. If the table name contains an identifier, it is…
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Just a day ago, my old colleague sent me an email. “I accidently renamed my tablename as a [], and now I am not able to rename it back with the help of T-SQL to its original name which was ProjectA. Is there any way to fix it?” Very interesting…
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SQL SERVER – Query Plan Analysis of Pivot and Unpivot with Profiler of dbForge Studio for SQL Server
Probably, everyone who writes SQL code has used INSERT statement, which alongside SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE, is a part of a basic operations’ set for data manipulation. Let us learn about Query Plan Analysis.
SQL SERVER – Tools for Proactive DBAs – Policy Based Management – Notes from the Field #012
[Note from Pinal]: This is a 12th episode of Notes from the Fields series. When taking a vacation the biggest worry any DBA has it that in their absence what will happen to their database. They are often worried that something will go wrong with their server or some users…
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ApexSQL Diff is a SQL Server database comparison software with a free Community version and Windows Azure SQL database support. To compare Windows Azure SQL databases in ApexSQL Diff selects “Database” as the data source type and a destination. Select the SQL Server Authentication and type the SQL Azure server name, user and password. Select databases from the list of available databases and click the Compare button.
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