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Jun3

SQLAuthority News – Training and Consultancy and Travel – Story of Last 30 Days

Pinal Dave
Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Training
4 Comments
Today’s blog post is not technical as usual. Here, I present a real story, and I also invite you all to share your thoughts or opinions on this post. I am a professional SQL Server Trainer; I also do consultation in the area of the Performance Tuning and Query Optimizations.…
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Jun2

SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure and Transactions

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
75 Comments
I just overheard the following statement – “I do not use Transactions in SQL as I use Stored Procedure“. I just realized that there are so many misconceptions about this subject. Transactions has nothing to do with Stored Procedures. Let me demonstrate that with a simple example. USE tempdb GO…
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Jun1

SQL SERVER – Precision of SMALLDATETIME – A 1 Minute Precision

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts
6 Comments
I am myself surprised that I am writing this post today. I am going to present one of the very known facts of SQL Server SMALLDATETIME datatype. Even though this is a very well-known datatype, many a time, I have seen developers getting confused with precision of the SMALLDATETIME datatype.…
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May31

SQLAuthority News – Monthly Roundup of Best SQL Posts

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
3 Comments
After receiving lots of requests from different readers for long time I have decided to write first monthly round up. If all of you like it I will continue writing the same every month. In fact, I really like the idea as I was able to go back and read…
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May30

SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – Performance Counters Gathering using Powershell

Pinal Dave
SQL
Powershell, SQL Utility
1 Comment

Laerte Junior has previously helped me personally to resolve the issue with Powershell installation on my computer. He did an awesome job to help. He has sent this another wonderful article regarding performance counter for readers of this blog. I really liked it and I expect all of you who are Powershell geeks, you will like the same as well.

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May29

SQLAuthority News – SQL Funny Quotes

Pinal Dave
SQLAuthority News
SQL Humor, SQL Server
1 Comment

Here are few SQL Funny Quotes.

Q. What if your Dad loses his car keys?
A. ‘Parent keys not found!’

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May28

SQL SERVER – Disabled Index and Update Statistics

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Statistics
3 Comments

When we try to update the statistics, it throws an error as if the clustered index is disabled. Now let us enable the clustered index only and attempt to update the statistics of the table right after that. Let us learn about Disabled Index and Update Statistics.

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SQL SERVER – Execution Plan Ignores Tabs, Spaces and Comments

SQL SERVER - Installation Error: The Specified Value 'Install' for ACTION is Invalid hex-2-msg-01

How to Convert Hex Windows Error Codes to the Meaningful Error Message – 0x80040002 and 0x80040005 and others? – Interview Question of the Week #182

SQL SERVER - Installation Error: The Specified Value 'Install' for ACTION is Invalid errorbackup

SQL SERVER – Msg 3292: A Failure Occurred While Attempting to Execute Backup or Restore With a URL Device Specified

SQL SERVER - Installation Error: The Specified Value 'Install' for ACTION is Invalid Backup-SAS-Script-02-800x689

SQL SERVER – Backup to URL – Script to Generate Credential and Backup using Shared Access Signature (SAS)

SQL SERVER - Installation Error: The Specified Value 'Install' for ACTION is Invalid sas-stripped-backup-01-800x564

SQL SERVER – Backup to URL – Script to Perform Stripped Backup using Shared Access Signature (SAS)

SQL SERVER - Installation Error: The Specified Value 'Install' for ACTION is Invalid errorbackup

SQL SERVER – Backup Error: 3636 – An Error Occurred While Processing BackupMetadata

SQL SERVER - Installation Error: The Specified Value 'Install' for ACTION is Invalid install-cmd-err-01-800x454

SQL SERVER – Installation Error: The Specified Value ‘Install’ for ACTION is Invalid

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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 100 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.

Pinal is also a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1) and CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2).


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