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SQL SERVER – Rename a Table Name Containing [ or ] in the Name – Identifier in the Table Name

January 25, 2014

SQL Scripts, SQL Server Management Studio

Just a day ago, my old colleague sent me an email. “I accidently renamed my tablename as a [], and now I am not able to rename it back with the help of T-SQL to its original name which was ProjectA. Is there any way to fix it?” Very interesting…

SQL SERVER – Tools for Proactive DBAs – Policy Based Management – Notes from the Field #012

January 23, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore

[Note from Pinal]: This is a 12th episode of Notes from the Fields series. When taking a vacation the biggest worry any DBA has it that in their absence what will happen to their database. They are often worried that something will go wrong with their server or some users…

SQL SERVER – SQLWays – Database and Application Migration Tool

January 21, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database and what is more application migration has always been time and money consuming task. In this article I’m going to tell you about one of the ways to make this task easier in all senses. I suppose that you might have already heard about SQLWays database migration tool, developed…

SQL SERVER – How to Validate Syntax and Not Execute Statement – An Unexplored Debugging Tip

January 20, 2014

Pinal Dave

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

In one of the recent interview I had asked questions of interviewees – If you are a SQL Server Developer there must be times when you want to validate syntax, but do not want to execute a query. What is the surest way to check that your syntax is valid…

SQL SERVER – Identify Oldest Active Transaction with DBCC OPENTRAN

January 19, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Transactions

I recently received a question on my Facebook page- “Pinal, How do I know if there is any open transaction in my database? I recently wanted to restart my server, but my manager asked me to first check if there is any open transaction in database before I restart the…

Personal Technology – Inserting Image in PDF File with Adobe Acrobat X Pro

January 18, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Personal Technology

Here is the one of the issues, I keep on facing every single time. Just like every DBA and Developers I keep on working with PDF. I use Adobe Acrobat X Pro to edit my PDFs. I am usually able to pretty much all the work related to text just…

SQL SERVER – Fix – Login failed for user ‘username’. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 18452)

January 17, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

Earlier this week, I was on vacation and did not check my emails for three days and when I returned, I found six different emails from 4 different people asking for the same problem. When they attempted to login using their application to SQL Server they faced following error: Login…