Question: How to Reduce High Virtual Log File (VLF) Count?
SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Get the First Name From Full Name Without CHARINDEX
Recently I have been engaged with a customer where they were having a performance issue. They have engaged me via my offering Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. While doing that, they asked me to write a better way to write a query. While I have given some suggestions and asked them to check, this looks like a nice puzzle to ask. So here we go to see the puzzle – Get the First Name From Full Name Without CHARINDEX.
SQL SERVER – Improve Index Rebuild Performance by Enabling Sort In TempDB
During recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, the customer put forward a compelling request. They wanted to improve their index rebuild performance as their index rebuilding process is taking forever to complete. When they asked me this, I exactly knew what we needed to do for this customer. We ended up fixing the issue of index rebuild by enabling sort in TempDB.
How to Get VLF Count and Size in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #161
Question: How to Get VLF Count and Size Information in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – Full-Text Search Not Working For PDF Documents
Full-Text is a feature of SQL Server which allows linguistic search in various languages. In general, we use LIKE operator to search inside the column data, but it is not very efficient. There are multiple advantages of full-text search. You can read more about this on my blog Creating Full-Text Catalog and Full-Text Search
SQL SERVER – What is Change Pending State of in SQL Server Configuration Manager?
Recently, one of my clients contacted me for an issue about Change Pending State where they were having issues where SQL Server. As soon as I joined the call with them, they showed me below.
SQL SERVER – Create Catalog Error 911: Database ‘SSISDB’ Does Not Exist. Make Sure That he name is entered correctly
Sometimes there are unexpected errors and it’s always fun to find the cause of them. In this blog, we would learn about fixing an error which I received while doing create catalog from SQL Server Management Studio.