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Interview Question of the Week #032 – Best Practices Around FileGroups

August 16, 2015

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Here is another question I just heard during a recent interview in the multinational company. I have observed over 1000s of interview, but this is the first time I have heard this is being discussed and I was very much glad to hear it. I have listed the answer of…

SQL SERVER – How to Identify Locked Table in SQL Server?

August 15, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Here is a quick script which will help users to identify locked tables in the SQL Server. SELECT OBJECT_NAME(p.OBJECT_ID) AS TableName, resource_type, resource_description FROM sys.dm_tran_locks l JOIN sys.partitions p ON l.resource_associated_entity_id = p.hobt_id When you run above script, it will display table name and lock on it. I have written…

SQL SERVER – Error while starting SQL Server logFileSize <= BlkToByteOffset ((ULONG)-1)

August 11, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

Recently I was playing with tempdb database in SQL Server and made some mistake. Due to that I was then not able to start SQL Service itself. Since it was an interesting problem so worth blogging about it. Let’s have a look at problem. Whenever there is a SQL startup…

SQL SERVER – Error: Msg 4305, Level 16, State 1 – The log in this backup set terminates at LSN, which is too early to apply to the database.

August 10, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

While working with transaction log backup restore or log shipping, you must have seen below error message. Msg 4305, Level 16, State 1, Line 47 The log in this backup set begins at LSN 33000000048000001, which is too recent to apply to the database. An earlier log backup that includes…

Interview Question of the Week #031 – How to do Case Sensitive SQL Query Search

August 9, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Collation

Question – How to do case sensitive search on any column of the table? Answer – If Column1 of Table1 has following values ‘CaseSearch, casesearch, CASESEARCH, CaSeSeArCh’, following statement will return you all the four records. SELECT Column1 FROM Table1 WHERE Column1 = 'casesearch' To make the query case sensitive and…

SQL SERVER – How to do IF…THEN in SQL SERVER?

August 7, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Just another day I received following question – “Pinal, I am from DotNet expertise and I do not know how to convert the logic of IF…THEN into SQL statement, would you please help? ~Rajesh” I love simple questions as they have simple answers. In SQL Server, we can use a…

SQL SERVER – A Stored Procedure for Executing SSIS Packages in the SSIS Catalog – Notes from the Field #092

August 6, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore, SSIS

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is one of the most key essential part of the entire Business Intelligence (BI) story. It is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. In this episode of the Notes from the…