Earlier last month, I posted an interview question – How to Generate Random Passwords in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #181. Though, my efforts were honest my answer was not complete in that blog post. Thankfully, SQL Server Expert Tim Cartwright noticed the error in the blog post and decided to send me to follow up email with the accurate script to generate a random password.
SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script: How to Search for Multiple Values in ERRORLOG?
There are many situations where we need to apply filters in ERRORLOG to look at meaningful data. In this blog, we would learn how to search for multiple values in the SQL Server ERRORLOG file.
SQL SERVER – How to Check If Instant File Initialization Enabled or Not?
The question such as this makes my day during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. One of the DBA asked if there is an easy way to know if they have Instant File Initialization Enabled or Not for their server. Honestly, this is a very simple question but there was no quick answer to this one before SQL Server 2016. However, if you are using SQL Server 2016 or later version of SQL Server, you can figure out the status of the instant file initialization pretty quickly.
SQL SERVER – How to Listen on Multiple TCP Ports in SQL Server?
During my recent engagement of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, Sr. DBA asked if it is possible to run SQL Server on multiple TCP Ports. The answer is Yes, it is very much possible.
SQL SERVER – Quick Introduction to Startup Procedures
In today’s blog we are going to talk about the SQL Server feature which actually exists for a quite a while but interestingly enough it is not known much. Let us have a quick introduction to startup procedures.
SQL SERVER – Execution Plan Ignores Tabs, Spaces and Comments
Just another day I was delivering my training SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop, I noticed that organizations had many stored procedures but none of the SP had any comments. When I asked them why their Stored Procedures does not have comments, their point was that they believed because of the comments, the size of the execution plan increases. Not True, when SQL Server builds an execution plan, it ignores tabs, spaces, and all the comments.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Resource in Cluster – HUGE Master Database!
One of my clients contacted me and informed that SQL in cluster failed over from Node 01 to Node 02. It failed to come online on Node 02, failed back to Node 01, and it failed to come online there either. They contacted me to know why they are not able to start SQL Server in the cluster. Let us learn how to start the SQL Resource in Cluster when there is a huge master database.