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SQL SERVER – Configuration and Performance of SQL Server is Now Easy to Master

January 16, 2015

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

This is one of the toughest topics to address, and I am always looking at new tools that can help me learn and understand SQL Server better. In many cases, I fall back to MSDN documentation and official statements from the Microsoft site because a lot of R&D generally has…

SQL SERVER – The Easy Functions of SQL Server – Notes from the Field #062

January 15, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL DateTime

[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Kathi Kellenberger explains about easy and amazing functions of SQL Server. Kathi is an amazing instructor, she was the SQL author I have read in my early career. The reason, I love SQL Server because her writing has…

SQL SERVER – How to Increase Number of Errorlog Files

January 14, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Log

A long back I had written a blog on – SQL SERVER – Recycle Error Log – Create New Log file without Server Restart. Recently one of my blog reader emailed me with this question: Hi Pinal, In our SQL Server, we are logging successful logins to ERRORLOG and due…

SQL SERVER – Visibility into the Overall Health of Your SQL Server Environment – You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See

January 13, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Dell, SQL Scripts

I am sure most of us have experienced driving a four wheeler. The first time I went behind the wheels, it was an amazing experience. My excitement was multiplied by tension in the face of my father. After a while, I could see a sigh of relief and confidence even…

Interview Question of the Week #002 – Script to Find Byte Size of a Row for All the Tables in Database

January 11, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

In recent times I was part of the interview panel where I was stunned to see that following question was asked to interviewee. I personally believed that this question is no longer relevant as we are in the age where database are capable to handle large amount of data and the…

SQL SERVER – What is the query used in sp_cursorfetch and FETCH API_CURSOR?

January 10, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Cursor

In a recent debugging exercise for performance, one of my friend recently posted a question to me: “When I view activity monitor, under the recent expensive queries and under query column, there I see a “fetch api_cursor0000000000000003”. What is this? How can I know what was running behind this query?…

SQL SERVER – What is is_not_trusted in sys.foreign_keys?

January 9, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL System Table

My greatest source of learning is via my blog. Many of you take time in asking your toughest questions and sometimes basic questions that make me think. This interaction creates a source of exploration for me and ultimately translates into my knowledge sharing. All questions asked by DBAs are not…