SSMS refused to open a maintenance plan and showed an error instead. Here is what I did when I was unable to open Maintenance Plan in Management Studio.
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SELECT One by Two – Why Does SELECT 1/2 Returns 0 – Interview Question of the Week #067
Why does SELECT 1/2 return 0 in SQL Server and not 0.5? Beginners often think it is a bug. Here is the SELECT One by Two answer, explained simply.
SQL SERVER – Identifying Page Types
During a consulting session on SQL Server building blocks, a DBA asked me about pages. Here is how to identify Page Types in your database, back to basics.
MySQL – FOUND_ROWS() Function for Total Number of Rows Affected
In SQL Server you get the number of rows affected with @@ROWCOUNT. In MySQL, you can find the total number of rows with FOUND_ROWS().
SQL SERVER – Backup Randomly Failing with Error 112 (There is not enough space on the disk.)
Solving puzzle is something everyone would love. IHere is the puzzle which they wanted me to solve for Error 112.
SQL SERVER – Network Name resource fails to come online in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
After adding a new disk, a client’s cluster Network Name resource would not come online in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster. Here is what we found.
SQL SERVER – Drive Space Full Due to MDMP Files
A client’s C drive kept filling up, and the transaction log was not to blame. SQL dump files were. Here is what caused this Drive Space Full issue.
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