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SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Illusion – Confusion – April Fools’ Day

April 1, 2012

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

Today is April 1st and just like every other year, I like to bring something interesting and light for the day. Atleast there should be days in every one’s life when they should feel easy. Here is a quick puzzle for you and I believe it will make you feel…

SQL SERVER – sp_describe_first_result_set New System Stored Procedure in SQL Server 2012

March 31, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Stored Procedure

I might have said this earlier many times but I will say it again – SQL Server never stops to amaze me. Here is the example of it sp_describe_first_result_set. I stumbled upon it when I was looking for something else on BOL. This new system stored procedure did attract me…

SQL SERVER – Online Index Rebuilding Index Improvement in SQL Server 2012

March 30, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Index

Have you ever faced a situation where you see something working but you feel it should not be working? Well, I had similar moments a few days ago. I knew that SQL Server 2008 supports online indexing. However, I also knew that I could not rebuild index ONLINE if I…

SQL SERVER – Difference between DATABASEPROPERTY and DATABASEPROPERTYEX

March 29, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Earlier I asked a simple question on Facebook regarding difference between DATABASEPROPERTY and DATABASEPROPERTYEX in SQL Server. You can view the original conversation there over here. The conversion immediately became very interesting and lots of healthy discussion happened on facebook page. The best part of having conversation on facebook page is…

SQL SERVER – T-SQL Constructs – *= and += – SQL in Sixty Seconds #009 – Video

March 28, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Video

Database, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Scripts

There were plenty of request for Vinod Kumar to come back with SQL in Sixty Seconds with T-SQL constructs after his very first well received construct video T-SQL Constructs – Declaration and Initialization – SQL in Sixty Seconds #003 – Video. Vinod finally comes up with this new episode where he…

SQL SERVER – Right Aligning Numerics in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

March 27, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server Management Studio

SQL Server Management Studio is my most favorite tool and the comfort it provides to user is sometime very amazing. Recently I was retrieving numeric data in SSMS and I found it is very difficult to read them as they were all right aligned. Please pay attention to following image,…

SQL SERVER – Download Free eBook – Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012

March 25, 2012

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database, SQL Download

Database Administration and Business Intelligence is indeed very key area of the SQL Server. My very good friend Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner has recently wrote book which is for SQL Server 2012. The best part of the book is it is totally FREE! Well, this book assumes that you…