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SQLAuthority News – Milestone – 1400th Post and Why do I blog

July 10, 2010

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

I am very glad today that I have reached milestone of 1400th post. I was looking back to my journey which I started on Nov 1, 2006 and I feel that it has been long way. I have noticed a lot of changes in myself too. Earlier, I used to…

SQLAuthority News – I am a MVP and I Love SQL Server

July 9, 2010

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

MVP, SQL User Group

I am very glad that I received this prestigious award for the third time in a row. I am very thankful to Microsoft for introducing this wonderful technology of SQL Server. I enjoy getting involved with the community, which also helps in my self-improvement as well. I would like to…

SQL SERVER – The Self Join – Inner Join and Outer Join

July 8, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Joins, SQL Scripts

Self Join has always been an note-worthy case. It is interesting to ask questions on self join in a room full of developers. I often ask – if there are three kind of joins, i.e.- Inner Join, Outer Join and Cross Join; what type of join is Self Join? The…

SQL SERVER – Upper Case Shortcut SQL Server Management Studio

July 7, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server Management Studio

Few days ago, I received code which is very similar to code shown below. select * from Sales.SalesOrderDetail where ProductID > 777 I am not the guy who go crazy for formatting but I do appreciate proper coding. I like if the code was formatted like below. SELECT * FROM…

SQLAuthority News – I am Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)

July 6, 2010

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Training

I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer and I am very much proud of it. Because I am a MCT, I have the support of great community leaders and trainers who help me constantly to improve in what I do. I have many Microsoft Certifications and I constantly try to take…

SQL SERVER – PowerShell Version Info

July 5, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Powershell, SQL Scripts

I have multiple computer systems at home. I have previously taken a picture of my home office and published it here. Also, I recently had a scenario where I was listing a PowerShell version installed in my computer systems. While searching online, I found two different commands that can determine…

SQL SERVER – Index Levels, Page Count, Record Count and DMV – sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats

July 4, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Index, SQL Scripts

In the recent Query Tuning project, one of the developers who were helping me out in the project asked me if there is any way that he could know how many pages are used by any Index, and if there is any way I could demonstrate the different levels of…