[Note from Pinal]: This is a 77th episode of Notes from the Field series. Every week, I personally wait for the notes from the fields from Mike because it contains lessons of life which directly impacts DBA and Developer’s life positively. Mike Walsh is an amazing person to meet and know. I am fortunate to be his friend. Every single time I meet him, I learn something as a human. He is always looking for an opportunity to improve the life of DBAs and Developers.
SQL SERVER – Split Comma Separated List Without Using a Function
The best way to learn something is to revisit some of the older blogs and then look at finding a more efficient way to work on the same problem. Recently I was looking at the forums to find a question come up again and again around making a comma separated list. This is not new over this blog and if you search you will get few. Long time ago I have written below blogs to show the values stored in table as comma separate list – this is not a rehash of what was written before but a newer way to solve the problem again.
Interview Question of the Week #016 – How to Take Database Offline
Here is the question, I received in the recent conference where I was presenting on Database Technology. Question: What does it mean by Taking Database Offline and How to do it? Answer: Taking database offline means, it will be no more available for database operations. Here are is how you…
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SQL SERVER – Create Login with SID – Way to Synchronize Logins on Secondary Server
How many times you had a problem where you have deployed a high availability solution, but the application is not able to use database and getting login failed for user after failover? Note that this issue would happen only with SQL Logins not Windows Login. You would understand the reason shortly. Here are the situations where you might face login failure.
SQLAuthority News – Presenting 3 Technology Session at GIDS 2015
Great Indian Developer Summit is my favorite technology event and I have been extremely happy to present technology sessions here for over 5 years. Just like every year, this year, I will be presenting three technology session on SQL Server 2014. This time the event is at two locations. First one is…
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SQL SERVER – Walking the Table Hierarchy in Microsoft SQL Server Database – Notes from the Field #076
[Note from Pinal]: This is a 76th episode of Notes from the Field series. Hierarchy is one of the most important concepts in SQL Server but there are not clear tutorial for it. I have often observed that this simple concept is often ignored or poorly handled due to lack of understanding. In…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Finding What Policies Are Enabled on Our Databases
When I wrote about Policy Management last week (SQL SERVER – Introduction to Policy Management), lesser did I know I will get queries from blog readers on the basics. As I always said, Policy Management is always an underappreciated capability inside SQL Server. In one of the mails, I was asked…
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