Earlier this year I have written a whole month on the subject SQL Server Wait Types and Wait Queues SQL SERVER – Summary of Month – Wait Type – Day 28 of 28. The focus of this series was very simple – define a problem and solve it. I learned a lot while I wrote this series. While I am writing this blog, I am very much delighted that SQL Doctor team of Idera software is very kind to implement a few of the tricks from the blog post.
SQL SERVER – Error: Failed to retrieve data for this request. Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc – ‘DATABASEPROPERTY’ is not a recognized built-in function name. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 195)
I have four different machine at home. Office Laptop – Provided by work organization Personal Laptop – My wife uses it Demo Machine – A very old machine – I think I can only do demo of my messenger only – it is 32 bit – single CPU 1 GB…
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Earlier I posted article SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets. After reading this SQL Expert Ramdas asked following and very interesting question: This is a nice feature and i am sure would be used a lot. How is the performance of this as compared with using…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Migration Assistant for Access, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase
SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a free supported tool from Microsoft that simplifies database migration process from Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) to SQL Server or SQL Azure. SSMA automates all aspects of migration including migration assessment analysis, schema and SQL statement conversion, data migration as well as migration…
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SQL SERVER – CTAS – Create Table As SELECT – What is CTAS?
I have been working with the database for many years and I am aware of many common terminologies. Recently I was attending training myself and the instructor used the word ‘CTAS’ in the class. One of the attendees did not know the definition of this abbreviation. From this, I realized that not all of us come from the same background and we all have different levels and areas of expertise.
SQL SERVER – 2012 – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets – New
After reading my earlier article SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets, one of the readers asked if this new feature (syntax) support multiple resultset of the stored procedure? Very interesting question indeed as most of the stored procedures that I usually come across have more than…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – 2012 – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets
Here is a normal conversation I heard when I saw that the function (UDF) was used instead of the procedure (SP). Q: Why are you using User Defined Function instead of Stored Procedure? A: I cannot SELECT from SP, but I can from UDF. SQL Server’s next version ‘Denali’ is…
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