Just another day, I received an email from a user who has over 350 thousand tables in a single database. He was my earlier customer of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. He was facing indeed a very strange issue where his metadata table was locking up and we fixed that by disabling IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio.
SQL SERVER – Finding Compression Ratio of Backup
During the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked if there is any way to know compression ration of backup if we enable compressed backup settings in SQL Server.
SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine Via T-SQL?
Earlier last year, I had posted a very interesting blog post which still today gets quite a lots of interest is SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine?. In the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, the client wanted to get this one done by T-SQL only. I had replied to them via email but never got around to blog about it here.
SQL SERVER – How to DROP Multiple Tables Using Single DROP Statement?
In my earlier post, SQL SERVER – How to DELETE Multiple Table Together Via SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)? I showed you how to DROP Statement multiple tables together using a wizard in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
SQL SERVER – New Way to Use DBCC Page in SQL Server 2019
As soon as a new version of SQL Server is announced, I always try to find new things and update my old post with new information or write a new post. In this blog, we would learn about new function introduced in SQL Server 2019 which is a partial replacement of DBCC PAGE.
If you have not heard about the capability of DBCC PAGE then you can look at my earlier blog on the same topic. SQL SERVER – Identifying Page Types
SQL SERVER – Configuration Manager Error: The Server Threw an Exception [0x80010105]
In my previous blog, I showed one of the errors caused due to disabled WMI service. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error “The server threw an Exception [0x80010105]” while using SQL Server Configuration Manager.
SQL Server – Formatted Date and Alias Name in ORDER BY Clause
CONVERT function can be used to change the format of DATE to various formats like MM/dd/yyy, dd/MM/yyy, yyy/MM/dd, etc. But have you ever noticed that this will produce resultset with a different order if the alias name is used in ORDER BY Clause? Well, I just learned about the formatted date from my recent consulting engagement Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.