No matter how old we get we all want to Santa to give us gifts during the festival season. As the festival seasons has been approaching I was talking to a few of the Developer Tools vendors to see if they can come up with something cool for blog readers. If you are familiar with this blog, you must know about Devart. They are a fantastic team of people and make beautiful and easy to use tools. Let us see how to win USD 100 gift card.
SQL SERVER – Monitor Database via a Heatmap, Alarms List and Realtime Diagnostics for FREE
Note: This review is based on the performance monitoring and tuning free product Spotlight on SQL Server Freemium. If you think of a DBA’s life, it has one very simple goal – their server should never go down and all the queries should always perform excellently. However, just like any…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – How to Identify Datatypes and Properties of Variable
Just another day I received very interesting question in email from Zovis and we exchanged few emails. I am converting our conversation in the chat format to understand it easily. Zovis: How do I identify the datatype and other properties of the variable? Pinal: Just check the datatype of the…
Read MoreMySQL – How to Create Stored Procedure
If you are beginner with MySQL, you will face this particular issue while creating Stored Procedure. When I started with MySQL I had faced the similar situation as well. In MySQL we end every statement with semicolon. However, when we try to create stored procedure we face dilemmas that how…
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SQL SERVER – Optimal Memory Settings for SQL Server – Notes from the Field #006
[Notes from Pinal]: Quite often we hear that my SQL Server is taking more memory or my server needs more memory as all the applications are running slow. The reality is that no matter how much memory you have it is never going to be enough. We all want more…
Read MoreSQL Reporting – How to Add Excel and Word Reporting to Your Own Application – An Innovative Approach
To experience the awesomeness of OfficeWriter, I suggest you here to download the tool and work along with this blog post. The OfficeWriter API is a .NET library by SoftArtisans that makes it easy for developers to add Excel and Word reporting and document processing to their own applications. OfficeWriter…
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SQL SERVER – Working with Business Days in SQL Server – A Different Approach
I recommend that you download XLeratorDB and try this problem along with me, this is going to be a fun exercise and something new to learn about Business Days.