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SQL SERVER – How to Add Multiple New Columns to Table with Default Values?

This is a follow up blog post of my earlier blog post on the same subject. You can read my earlier blog post over here. I recently received an email where a user asked how to add more than one new column to an existing table with a default value. Very interesting and simple question. Honestly, I love simple questions as they are the most needed by users. So here is the question – “How to Add Multiple New Columns to Table with Default Values?”. Now let us try to solve this question with the help of an example.

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MySQL – How to Drop Table If Exists in Database?

In this post SQL Server – 2016 – T-SQL Enhancement “Drop if Exists” clause, we have seen the new feature introduced in SQL Server version 2016. One of my friends recently asked me question that how to drop table in exists in MySQL database? It was not surprising to see that not many people know about the existence of this feature. MySQL already has this feature for a while and if you are MySQL DBA, you may find it interesting that SQL Server just introduced this feature.

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SQL SERVER – Patch Upgrade – Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070422

One of my recent interaction with a client was to assist in performing Upgrade the SQL Server 2008 R2 with service pack 2. As usual, I asked for setup logs from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\ folder. There were multiple folders so I asked the one which corresponds to the time of failure. Let us see exposure how we can solve error Error: 0x80070422.

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“I Don’t Know” – DBAs Should Learn to Use This Phrase – Notes from the Field #119

[Note from Pinal]: This is a 119th episode of Notes from the Field series. If you know Mike Walsh, he is an amazing person to meet and know. He is technical expert, but along with that he is a true life coach. I am fortunate to be his friend. Every single time I meet him, I learn something as a human. In this episode Mike explains one of the most important things any DBAs should learn, which is to say “I Don’t Know”.

In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Mike Walsh gives a challenge to all of us. He explains to us why we should study our mistakes. He is indeed very right that every mistake gives us opportunity to correct ourselves.

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SQL Authority News – Behind the Scene Story of New Look

SQLAuthority.com blog started on November 1, 2006. Since that day I have blogged over 3500 blog posts and have witnessed over 110 million views on this blog. Today I am happy to tell you that SQLAuthority have a new look and the behind the scene story. This year we are going to witness 10th anniversary of the blog in November and it is amazing success of the teamwork.This blog was started as a bookmark collection of personal favorite script and slowly it turned out to be a place for the SQL enthusiast to talk SQL.

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