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SQL SERVER – Enhancing Reference Data in Master Data Services – Notes from the Field #089

July 16, 2015

[Note from Pinal]: This is a 89th episode of Notes from the Field series. Master Data Services is one of the most important, but a very little explored feature of SQL Server. If you have been reading this blog, when it is about BI, I always take help from LinchPin People who are…

SQL SERVER – Process ID X was killed by hostname ABC, host process ID Y

July 15, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Errorlogs are an awesome place to learn something new every time. It springs up with some new errors which you might have not seen ever. I am a big believer of the fact that one needs to monitor and take a look at the logs from time to time. It…

SQL SERVER – Querying Performance Counters from SQL Server

July 14, 2015

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Scripts

Troubleshooting SQL Server is something almost every single DBA has to go through in their lifespan. It sounds simple and often we are clueless on where to start. Here is a scenario, you have been told that SQL Server is slow or unresponsive. Now you need to troubleshoot and figure…

SQL SERVER – How to Change Server Name?

July 13, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server

In recent past, I have renamed my VM and wanted to make sure that everything is fine. This renaming process is also needed for changing the server names called inside of SQL Server too. So I searched to know various places from where we can get host name and SQL Server name. Let us learn in this table how to change server name? Finally, I formed this query which can gather same details from various sources:

Interview Question of the Week #028 – T-SQL Script to Detect SQL Server Version and Property

July 12, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Here is a very basic question I just came across the other day. I was interviewing nearly 20 candidates and I found that only 5 of them could write the query (with the help of the internet). Question: How to determine the version and properties of SQL Server with the help of…

POSTGRESQL – How to Create Function? – How to Declare Local Variable

July 11, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

I have written few courses on PostgreSQL on Pluralsight. You can watch list of all the courses over here. Recently, after watching my courses one of the user who is familiar with SQL Server but just beginning with PostgreSQL asked me very interesting questions. Let us here the question in…

SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Working with functions to Concatenate columns

July 10, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Every now and then I get pulled into coding review sessions and those are some of the fun times I every have working with T-SQL of any sorts. This blog is inspired by one such time where I saw at a customer location a code that was lengthy and in…