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Jun16

SQL SERVER – Find Largest Supported DML Operation – Question to You

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
Best Practices
3 Comments
SQL Server is very big and it is not possible to know everything in SQL Server but we all keep learning. Recently I was going over the best practices of transactions log and I come across following statement. The log size must be at least twice the size of largest…
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Jun15

SQL SERVER – Shrinking Database NDF and MDF Files

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Shrinking Database, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC
20 Comments

Previously, I had written a blog post about SQL SERVER. I am posting this blog post here about Shrinking Database.

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Jun14

SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQL PASS, SQLAuthority Author Visit
3 Comments
June 11, 2010 was a wonderful day because I attended the very first SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch event held by Microsoft at Mumbai. I traveled to Mumbai from my home town, Ahmedabad. The event was located at one of the best hotels in Mumbai,”The Leela”. SQL Server R2 Launch…
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Jun13

SQL SERVER – What is Denali?

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
24 Comments
I see following question quite common on Twitter or in my email box. “What is Denali?” Denali is code name of SQL Server 2011. Here is the list of the code name of other versions of SQL Server. In 1988, Microsoft released its first version of SQL Server. It was…
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Jun12

SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 – WITH GETDATE

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts
7 Comments
Earlier I wrote blog post SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME which inspired me to write SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2. Now earlier two blog post inspired me to write this blog post (and 4 emails and 3 reads from readers). I previously populated DATETIME…
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Jun11

SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts
16 Comments
Yesterday I have written a very quick blog post on SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME and I got tremendous response for the same. I suggest you read that blog post before continuing with this blog post today. I had asked people to honestly take part and share…
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Jun10

SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts
59 Comments
Sometime something so simple skips our mind. I never knew the difference between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME. I just ran simple query as following and realized the difference. SELECT GETDATE() fn_GetDate, SYSDATETIME() fn_SysDateTime In case of GETDATE the precision is till miliseconds and in case of SYSDATETIME the precision is till…
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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch

SQL SERVER – What is Denali?

SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 – WITH GETDATE

SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2

SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME

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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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