In my earlier post on “How to Escape a Single Quote in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #192 I showed you a method of escaping a single quote.
SQL SERVER – The Older Way to Find Size of Index Using Deprecated sysindexes
Earlier this month, I wrote a blog post about How to Find Size of the Index for Tables? – Interview Question of the Week #198, in this I had explained the way to find the size of the index for the table. However, while I was writing the blog post, I was thinking about how I used to love sysindexes once upon a time. However, as now I focus on the new DMVs, I decided not to provide the script of the sysindexes.
SQL SERVER – Cluster Resource ‘AGName’ of type ‘SQL Server Availability Group’ in Clustered Role ‘AGName’ Failed
I never leave my customers alone when they are having an issue with something which I helped them. Typically, I help customers in creating POC and deploying AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Just the other day while doing the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I came across error related to cluster resources.
SQL SERVER – You Are Not Logged on as the Database Owner or System Administrator
Every day I spend a good amount of time with my regular and new clients, helping them with SQL Server Performance Tuning issues. Today, in this blog, I will discuss a situation faced where I was engaged in Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. I saw below message on client’s SSMS while he was trying to create a table – You are not logged on as the database owner or system administrator.
SQL SERVER – Disable IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio
Just another day, I received an email from a user who has over 350 thousand tables in a single database. He was my earlier customer of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. He was facing indeed a very strange issue where his metadata table was locking up and we fixed that by disabling IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio.
SQL SERVER – Finding Compression Ratio of Backup
During the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked if there is any way to know compression ration of backup if we enable compressed backup settings in SQL Server.
SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine Via T-SQL?
Earlier last year, I had posted a very interesting blog post which still today gets quite a lots of interest is SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine?. In the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, the client wanted to get this one done by T-SQL only. I had replied to them via email but never got around to blog about it here.