If you have ever needed to implement a large-scale data platform migration or consolidation project, you are definitely familiar with many of the pain points faced during the process. Firstly, manual data collection is very tricky to arrange and demands lots of work. Secondly, the planning of the capacity is a complex and detailed process – you need to take all the performance counters, their threshold levels and SLA’s, trends, different server benchmarks and such into account. When it comes to the consolidation effort, it is impossible to try to rearrange the SQL Server instances into a most optimal target server setup with manual work. All this takes a lot of time and is prone to human error.
SQL SERVER – Generating In-Memory OLTP Migration CheckList
During recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, one of my customer asked if I can also help them to check their readiness of In-Memory OLTP Migration as well as the help them build a checklist which can help them with In-Memory OLTP Migration.
Alphabets – SQL SERVER – Retrieving Rows With All Alphabets From Alphanumeric Data
I got an email from one of my blog readers asking for an easy way to identify if a given string contains only alphabets. There can be methods.
SQL SERVER – Rename Physical Database File Name for Any Database
During the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked is there any way we can rename the logical database file name. I have blogged about it here: SQL SERVER – Rename Logical Database File Name for Any Database. Right after the blog post, I received another question where the user wanted to know if there is an easy way to rename the physical file. In this blog post, we will learn about how to rename the physical database files name.
SQL SERVER – Rename Logical Database File Name for Any Database
During recent we Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we had to restore a database on a server. When we restored a database, we realized that the logical file name of the database was incorrect and we had to change that to something more consistent with the organization’s naming convention. Let us see how we changed logical database file name in a few quick steps.
SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function to Extract Only Numbers From String
In my old post SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function to Extract Only Numbers From String, I showed you User Defined function which can be used to extract only numbers from the given string. In this post, I am going to show you another method of extracting numbers from the string.
SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Generate Fixed Digit OTP Code Using Random Function
One of my blog readers sent me the following mail after reading my earlier blog posts about Random Function and OTP Code. Before you read the email, you can read those blog posts here, here, and here.