A few days ago, I wrote a blog about a new feature in SSMS and I got few emails asking me to share such quick and fresh information. You can read my earlier blog here SQL Download – SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) – Performance Dashboard. In this blog post we will learn about the brand new feature called Object Explorer Query Tracking.
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One of my blog readers sent email to me asking if there is a way to convert CollationID to Collation name. I replied asking more details about the requirement. Here is her reply.
Pinal,
I am in a trouble right now. Due to a hardware crash, I lost many of database files. Unfortunately, I don’t have backups, but I was able to retrieve MDF files. I was trying to follow your blog
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