SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Dec23

SQL SERVER – Unable to drop login – Msg 15170, Level 16, State 1

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, , SQL Scripts, SQL Server

No Comments

Encountering error messages and solving them is something I often do. I think each and every error we encounter is validating our understanding in using the software and how we make simple mistakes. Let us learn about what we should do when we are unable to drop login.

Dec22

SQL SERVER – Error and Fix for Msg 1907 Cannot recreate index The new index definition does not match the constraint being enforced by the existing index

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

ColumnStore Index, SQL Error Messages

This particular blog post is around usage of Clustered ColumnStore Indexes and how one of my customer in a recent conversation brought this up to my notice. They were on SQL Server 2012 and were upgrading to SQL Server 2014 and were very much interested in the usage of Clustered…

Dec21

SQL SERVER 2016 – New T-SQL Functions – COMPRESS – DECOMPRESS

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

With every release of SQL Server, Microsoft has been adding enhancements to the product. Earlier I have written below blogs talking about new features/enhancements. Now I will write about features for SQL Server 2016 which are COMPRESS – DECOMPRESS.

Dec21

SQL SERVER – The Best Time to Buy – Devart Christmas Price Fall

Have you missed out the deals you were hoping to grab on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? Good news! You still have time to save. 16 December 2015 — 16 January 2016 is your next big window of opportunity for many software products from Devart.

Dec20

Interview Question of the Week #050 – Query to Retrieve Second Highest Salary of Employee

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

There are some questions which never gets old and I keep on seeing them again and again every time I participate in the interview to help hire qualified Developers and DBA. Here is another popular question which I often see. Question: Write a query to retrieve Second (or Nth) highest…

Dec19

MySQL – Date and Time Related System Functions

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Tips and Tricks

MySQL

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MySQL supports lot of functions to get current date and time. The following are some of the system functions. There are two functions to get current date SELECT curdate(),current_date(); There are two functions to get current time SELECT curtime(),current_time(); There are two functions to get current date along with time…

Dec18

SQL SERVER – Recompiling InMemory OLTP with SQL Server 2016

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

In-Memory OLTP

I wrote an intetresting trivia about InMemory OLTP code previously, SQL SERVER – How to take InMemory – OLTP FileGroup Offline?. Post this one of the reader was curious enough to ask me a counter question. He wrote back stating the recovery of the same is easy but he wanted…

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 100 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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