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Sep18

SQL SERVER – Five Puzzles around UNION – Participate in All Five

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
No Comments
Earlier this week, I ran five part series on UNION and it received very good response. Today I learned from Amazon that for a brief period of the time (to be precise for next 96 hours) they have reduced the price for price of Kindle Book of SQL Server Interview…
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Sep17

SQL SERVER – Detecting Potential Bottlenecks with the help of Profiler

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
4 Comments
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. At the first sight syntax of the INSERT statement may seem very trivial , especially when inserting one record –  INSERT INTO ……
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Sep16

SQL SERVER – Execute Operating System Commands in sqlcmd

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
sqlcmd
3 Comments
Here is the email received just the other day – “Hi Pinal, I have been using sqlcmd for a long time and I find it very comfortable. I am going to soon learn Powershell as well. However, here is one typical problem I face it every day and I want to check…
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Sep15

Personal Technology – Who is Accessing your Google Account?

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Google, Personal Technology
11 Comments
Do you know who is accessing your Google Account? Well, I did not know till yesterday. However, when I learn what apps are accessing my Google Accounts and particularly Gmail, I was really really scared. I receive lots of emails and just like all of us, some are private and…
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Sep14

SQL SERVER – Memory Lane – Scrum, SQL Reboot and More – #046

Pinal Dave
SQL
Memory Lane, SQL Server
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Let me know which one of the following is your favorite article from memory lane. My favorite article is about Scrum and SQL Reboot.

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Sep13

SQL – Weekend Project – Watching Technically Seth Series – What is your plan for this weekend?

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
NuoDB
3 Comments
“What is your plan for this weekend?” I was recently asked by my fellow colleague. I replied: “I have plan learn about Big Data and SQL from Technically Seth.” “Technically Seth!” He replied, “Never heard of him.” “Honestly even he has not heard of you.” I tried to look serious…
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Sep12

SQL SERVER – Automatically Store Results of Query to File with sqlcmd

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
sqlcmd
22 Comments
I receive lots of email everyday and I do answer almost every email I receive. However, I prefer to answer all the technical questions on my facebook page. With the help of social media it is very easy to reach out to multiple people with the same problem. Here is the…
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Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 22 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 104 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.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

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