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SQL SERVER – Year 2014 Reflections by Tim Radney – Notes from the Field #060

January 1, 2015

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

Notes from the Field, Shrinking Database

[Notes from Pinal]: New Year’s Resolutions is a funny word. Everybody makes it on January 1st but breaks it in very few days. I used to make resolutions too, but for a while, I have stopped this practice. Tim Radney is my great friend and I asked him that what…

SQLAuthority News – Thank You for Amazing Year! – Five Sixty Seconds Video

December 31, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

The year 2014 was amazing and I had a great time learning and sharing knowledge. I must thank you my dear readers for your constant support and motivation. I have been blogging every single day for over 8 years and this is only possible because of your help. Today is…

SQL SERVER – UNION and UNION ALL with TEXT DataType – Observation

December 30, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Union clause

You can find the difference between UNION and UNION ALL in the following posts Union vs. Union All – Which is better for performance? There is one more difference between the two when a column of TEXT datatype is involved. When you use UNION for a TEXT column you will get…

SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why Divide by Zero Error

December 29, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Earlier I asked a puzzle SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why Decimal is Rounded Up? and it was very well received by all of you. You can read various comments posted in the blog post and they are indeed very enlightening. After posting that blog post, I received quite a lots of emails asking…

SQL SERVER – Microsoft Releases for December 2014

December 28, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Download

Earlier this month, Microsoft has released quite a few SQL Server related tools, add-ons, and upgrades. I have listed a few of them here for a quick reference. The descriptions are of each downloads are from Microsoft download pages. Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol / Icon Set for Visio, PowerPoint,…

SQLAuthority News – Presented on Database Worst Practices at SQL Live, Orlando – November 29, 2014

December 26, 2014

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQLAuthority Author Visit

Earlier last month, I had the opportunity to present at SQL Live 2014. The event was held in Orlando in November 2014. I had a great time attending this event and I presented on the topic Database Worst Practices on November 21, 2014. Here is the title and abstract of the session, which…

SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning – Is It Really A Top Skills for a SQL Server Consultant? – Notes from the Field #059

December 25, 2014

Pinal Dave

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

Notes from the Field, SQL Server Security

[Note from Pinal]: This is a 59th episode of Notes from the Field series. I get over 100 emails everyday and out of 100 emails nearly 90 of them are really related to performance tuning. The emails I get is from various different IT professionals. There are quite a few application developers…