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SQL SERVER – Indexed View always Use Index on Table

October 12, 2010

This blog post is written in response to T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Shankar Reddy. I have been recently writing about Views and their Limitations. While writing this article series, I got inspired to write about SQL Server Quiz Questions. You can view the Quiz Question posted over here. In SQL…

SQLAuthority News – Presenting at South East Asia SharePoint Conference – Maintaining SQL Server at Optimal Performance for Blazing Fast SharePoint Site

October 11, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SharePoint, SQLAuthority Author Visit

I am delighted and very excited as I am going to attend very first time SharePoint Conference. Even though I will be attending SP conference, I will be presenting on my favorite subject – SQL Server Performance. Every SharePoint site runs on SQL Server and most of the SharePoint sites…

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 Add-ins and Feature Pack Downloads

October 9, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Download, SQL Utility

Here are few of the latest Microsoft Add-ins and downloads recently announced. SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies is a Web download that provides features for running a report server within a larger deployment of…

SQL SERVER – Simple Explanation of Data Type Precedence

October 8, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Datatype, SQL Scripts

While I was working on creating a question for SQL SERVER – SQL Quiz – The View, The Table and The Clustered Index Confusion, I had actually created yet another question along with this question. However, I felt that the one which is posted on the SQL Quiz is much…

SQL SERVER – SQL Quiz – The View, The Table and The Clustered Index Confusion

October 7, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SQL View

My very good friend, Jacob Sebastian, is running a month-long SQL Quiz Series where the best-of-the-best experts from around the globe would be the quiz masters. They will ask one question every day, and users are expected to answer them correctly. The winning prizes include cool gadgets like iPAD, Kindle…

SQL SERVER – Quickest Way to Identify Blocking Query and Resolution – Dirty Solution

October 6, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

Best Practices, Database, SQL Scripts

As the title suggests, this is quite a dirty solution; it’s not as elegant as you expect. The Story: I got a phone call at night (11 PM) from one of my old friends, requesting a hand. He asked me if I could help him with a very strange situation.…

SQL SERVER – Error : Fix : Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Directory lookup for the file failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.)

October 5, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

I recently got email from friend who had suffered from following error. Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Directory lookup for the file “filepath” failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.). Msg 1802, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 CREATE DATABASE failed.…