Just a day before I was presenting at Virtual Tech Days and I wanted to demonstrate the current time to audience using SQL Server Management Studio, I ended up a quick error. If any of you ever tried to concat multiple values of different datatype this should not be surprise to you.
SQL SERVER – Video – Performance Improvement in Columnstore Index
I earlier wrote an article about SQL SERVER – Fundamentals of Columnstore Index and it got very well accepted in community. However, one of the suggestion I keep on receiving for that article is that many of the reader wanted to see columnstore index in the action but they were…
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SQLAuthority News – Uncut and Unedited – Interview of Pinal Dave on Book Authoring
I was very happy when books were published and I got a print copy in my hand. In this blog post we will discuss about Book Authoring.
SQL SERVER – Denali CTP3 – Step by Step Installation Video – 200 Seconds
My recent article on SQL SERVER – Download Denali CTP3 and Denali CTP 3 Product Guide has inspired today’s post. After reading this blog post, I received a few emails and few comments on facebook page that if I can post a video guide to Denali CTP3 installation. Finally I create…
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SQL SERVER – Connecting to Server Using Windows Authentication by SQLCMD
Recently I got a call from an old friend I used to call “DJ”. Here is the exact conversation we had about SQLCMD.
SQL SERVER – Delete Duplicate Rows
I had previously penned down two popular snippets regarding deleting duplicate rows and counting duplicate rows. Today, we will examine another very quick code snippet where we will delete duplicate rows using CTE and ROW_NUMBER() feature of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.
SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Using sqlcmd From SSMS Query Editor
A day before I wrote article SQL SERVER – sqlcmd vs osql – Basic Comparison. Today while I was displaying how sqlcmd can be used instead of osql to one of my companies team leader, I found another neat feature of SSMS Query Editor. sqlcmd can be used from Query Editor but it has to be enabled first.