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SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Released (SP1)

November 18, 2012

SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Service Pack

Last week, I was attending SQLPASS 2012 and I had great fun attending the event. During the event long awaited SQL Serer 2012 Service Pack 1 was released. I am pretty excited with SP1 as new service packs are cumulative updates and upgrade all editions and service levels of SQL…

SQL SERVER – Retrieving Random Rows from Table Using NEWID()

November 16, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function

I have previously written about how to get random rows from SQL Server. SQL SERVER – Generate A Single Random Number for Range of Rows of Any Table – Very interesting Question from Reader SQL SERVER – Random Number Generator Script – SQL Query However, I have not blogged about following trick…

SQL SERVER – Concurrency Basics – Guest Post by Vinod Kumar

November 15, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

This guest post is by Vinod Kumar. Vinod Kumar has worked with SQL Server extensively since joining the industry over a decade ago. Working on various versions from SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 7.3 and other database technologies – he now works with the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) as a Technology Architect.…

SQLAuthority News – Happy Deepavali and Happy New Year

November 13, 2012

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

Diwali or Deepavali is popularly known as the festival of lights. It literally means “array of light” or “row of lamps“. Today we build a small clay maps and fill it with oil and light it up. The significance of lighting the lamp is the triumph of good over evil. I work…

SQL SERVER – Get Free Books on While Learning SQL Server 2012 Error Handling

November 12, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

Joes 2 Pros

Fans of this blog are aware that I have recently released my new books SQL Server Functions and SQL Server 2012 Queries. The books are available in market in limited edition but you can avail them for free on Wednesday Nov 14, 2012. Not only they are free but you…

SQL SERVER – Changing Default Installation Path for SQL Server

November 11, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server Management Studio

Earlier I wrote a blog post about SQL SERVER – Move Database Files MDF and LDF to Another Location and in the blog post we discussed how we can change the location of the MDF and LDF files after database is already created. I had mentioned that we will discuss how…

SQL SERVER – Beginning New Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #002

November 10, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Memory Lane

Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here with additional notes below it. Let me know which one of the following is your favorite…