In this blog post with the help of Extended Events, we will learn how to identify all the deprecated SQL Server Features. This feature can be very much handy when we are changing the compatibility of SQL Server and we want to check what are all the deprecated SQL Server features we are still using in our active code.
SQL SERVER – Identify Version of SQL Server from Backup File
One question I always ask all of my customers before I start Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check is that if they have taken backup of their server. The answer to this question honestly does not matter to me during consultancy I never change anything which brings to the situation where they need to restore the database. However, when I asked this question to my client, they said they have an issue to identify a version of SQL Server from the backup file.
SQL SERVER – Creating Temporary and Global Temporary Stored Procedures
During recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I had a very interesting situation I encountered where we found a stored procedure which was a root cause of the slowness. What we needed to do is to change the code and test if our new stored procedure is better than previous stored procedure or not. One of the options was to create a new stored procedure by renaming the older stored procedure and keep on testing. However, there was a small risk if we forget to drop the newly created stored procedure there will be junk created in the database. Let us see how we can avoid this situation by creating temporary or global Temporary stored procedures.
SQLAuthority News – 3 Performance Tuning Presentations at SQLBits 2018 – London
I have so far attended many different technology conferences all over the world. SQLBits 2018 is my all time the favorite conference ever. This year, I was fortunate to present 1 Pre-Con and 2 Breakout Sessions on SQL Server subjects. I had received an amazing response to my sessions and pre-conferences.
SQL SERVER – What is Forwarded Records and How to Fix Them?
During the early year of my career, one of the most popular questions I used to receive was – What is Forwarded Record? I used to find this question very valid as many people yet did not know what is the forwarded record. In most of the cases as time passes by more knowledge is spread amount SQL Server users and the number of questions reduces on a single topic. However, this is something I can’t say is true for Forwarded Records.
SQL SERVER – What is Tail-Log Backups?
A Very popular question since many years often resurfaces in my mailbox. I am writing this blog here so in the future, I can direct users to this blog posts when they ask about Tail-Log Backups.
SQL SERVER – Why SQL Server Service is Stuck in Starting / Change Pending State?
Recently, I wrote a blog about “Change Pending” state of SQL Server service. After looking at that blog one of my readers contacted me via email for the “similar” issue. In this blog, we would learn about another variation of “Change Pending” state.