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SqlServerWriter

SQL SERVER – SqlServerWriter Missing in vssadmin List Writers Command

January 20, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL
SQL Command, SQL Error Messages, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Visual Studio

After troubleshooting they found that when they run vssadmin list writers command from the command prompt, they are not seeing SqlServerWriter.

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isnumeric function

SQL SERVER – ISNUMERIC Function and Interesting Result

January 2, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

Let us learn, ISNUMERIC Function and Interesting Result. An interesting observation from my client of the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.

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SQL SERVER – APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT – Not Always Efficient

December 11, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Counter, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2019

After a lot of testing, I figured out that the newly introduced function is not always efficient. A newly-introduced function APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT.

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NEWSEQUENTIALID

SQL SERVER – Using NEWID vs NEWSEQUENTIALID for Performance

October 30, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

The first key column as uniqueidentifier datatype. In this blog post, we will discuss Using NEWID vs NEWSEQUENTIALID for Performance.

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2nd row

SQL SERVER – Getting Second Row from Table

October 28, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Ranking Functions, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Temp Table

The other day during one of my old clients sent me an email about if I know any trick to get the second row from the resultset.

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print statement

SQL SERVER – PRINT Statement and Format of Date Datatype

August 23, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
File format, SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

we took a 5 minutes coffee break and during that short time, one of the DBA asked me a question about PRINT Statement and DataType.

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top N Rows

How to Skip Top N Rows in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #237

August 11, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Ranking Functions, SQL Function, SQL Paging, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to skip top N Rows in SQL Server and retrieve the rest of the rows? Answer: I had asked the above question in one of the interviews last week.

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