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Apr5

SQL SERVER – How to Change SQL Server Collation on Microsoft Azure VM (IaaS)

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Azure, SQL Collation, SQL Server

I have been using Microsoft Azure, SQL Virtual Machine (IaaS) for quite some time because few of my clients ask questions about them. My clients generally use images from gallery to deploy SQL Server. Once they realized that they want to change the SQL Server collation instance. I was contacted to know the steps to do that. I learned something new so sharing via the blog.

Caution: Rebuild of system databases is as good as the fresh installation of SQL Server. YOU WOULD LOSE ALL EXISTING INFORMATION so please backup the stuff, if needed.

Apr4

MySQL – Different Methods to Know Current User

Pinal Dave

SQL

MySQL, SQL Scripts

There are different methods to know the name of the current user in MySQL. There can be many reasons we want to know who is the current user. Here is list of the of the few of the such reasons.

Customized code which we want to run based on the reason.
Checking the permissions based on the user.
Inserting the name of the user in the audit table.
Displaying special message based on the login user.
Executing some special logic/code based on the logged in user.

Apr3

SQL SERVER – Who Changed the Password of SQL Login? – Interview Question of the Week #065

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

, SQL Password, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

Today’s interview question was not really asked interview, but it is indeed a real world scenario which everyone should know the answer of. I strongly suggest you bookmark this blog post at once in your lifetime you will need this blog post to know who changed the password of your SQL Login?

Question: Who changed the password of SQL Login?

Answer: Continue to read the answer.

Apr2

SQL SERVER – FIX: Could not connect because the maximum number of 1 user connections has already been reached

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Sometimes making a change in something for which the impact is not known, could cause a heavy loss. A similar situation happened when one of my clients called me and told that he is in big trouble and losing a lot of money every minute. Without wasting any moment, I asked what is the issue, then he told that he changed some setting in SQL Server, restarted SQL and now no one is able to connect. The application is completely down! Let us see how we can fix the error: Could not connect because the maximum number of ‘1’ user connections has already been reached.

Apr1

SQL SERVER 2016 – Early Thoughts and Observations – Notes from the Field #120

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Server 2016

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[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Mike Lawell explains about Live Query Statistics in SQL Server 2016. Statistics are heart of SQL Server. They play a very powerful role when SQL Server Engine needs help to build a new execution plan for a query. In earlier version of SQL Server we had the only privilege to see statistics after the query is executed. However, with the advancement of SQL Server 2016, the scenario has been changed. Here is a very interesting new feature of SQL Server 2016 which can help every performance tuning expert. Read the SQL Server 2016 – Early Thoughts and Observations of Mike in his own words.

Mar31

SQL SERVER – Finding If Status of Bulk Logging Enabled or Not From Logs

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Bulk Logging, SQL Log, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

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Backup related questions are always challenging and sometimes our basics is shaken when someone randomly asks us something we were not aware of. Sometimes it takes a little bit of digging around in documentation and we are in for a surprise because this has been there for quite some time. In a recent conversation with a DBA friend of mine in a consulting exercise, he came back to me with an interesting question. Let us see in this blog post about how to find the status of Bulk Logging Enabled or not from SQL logs.

Pinal, how do I know if a Bulk Logging operation was performed on my SQL Server. I know there are a number of SSIS jobs that run during the day and night and I have a number of log backups that are taken continuously. Some of these jobs actually change the recovery model to Bulk-Logged and end of the process, they turn it back to Full once the script was to end. I know I can do a number of audit settings to make sure this is captured. But is there any other way to identify which of these logs when taken have the Bulk logged operation?

Mar30

SQL SERVER – How to Query Active Directory Data Using ADSI / LDAP Linked Server

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server

There are situations when you need to integrate SQL Server with other product. Once of the classic example was seen during my last visit to a client. They wanted list of email addresses and phone numbers for all users in the company to be fetched by Active Directory. I have told them that SQL can read that data via linked server. Here are the steps to learn how to query active directory data.

Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 92 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

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