Question: How to Find Size of All the Indexes on the Database?
SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine?
There are multiple ways by which we can find a list of SQL Server instances name instances on a machine. In this blog, I would show a few ways to do it.
SQL SERVER – Fix Error Msg 10794, Level 16 – The operation ‘CREATE INDEX’ is not supported with memory optimized tables.
Whenever I write something as a new concept, I do see people reading the blog do give it a try. Many a times I get queries that the script didn’t work for them after they learnt the concepts about memory optimized tables. The blog I wrote on how In Memory OLTP was supporting ColumnStore – read it: SQL SERVER – Creating Clustered ColumnStore with InMemory OLTP Tables
SQL SERVER – Unable to Attach Database – File Activation Failure – The Log Cannot be Rebuilt
Once I was in a situation where there was a disaster faced by my client. They lost the drive which was having transaction log file. Since they did not have effective monitoring, they realized that the backup jobs were failing. So essentially they only have MDF files for user databases and they were left with option to rebuild the log. Let us learn about how file activation failure can create an interesting error.
SQL SERVER – Creating Clustered ColumnStore with InMemory OLTP Tables
When SQL Server 2016 was released, there were a number of enhancements that were discussed around how InMemory OLTP removed which were as limitations. I personally saw some real boot to some of the capabilities coming into InMemory OLTP especially around the concept called as Operational Analytics that Microsoft calls in this release. I am going to talk about this concept in my SQLPass session later this month in October but here is a teaser for what I learnt from this concept.
Performance Comparison EXCEPT vs NOT IN – Interview Question of the Week #095
During SQLPass summit, I was asked following question by one of the attendees. The question was about Performance Comparison of Except vs NOT IN. Let us quickly discuss this question.
Question: Which of the operator is better for query performance – EXCEPT or NOT IN?
SQL SERVER – FIX Error 5120 – Database is in Read Only Mode After Attaching Files
Sometimes you need to know more about permissions on file, service account etc. to fix certain errors. In my recent visit to a customer location, one of the database developers came to me with a problem. He said that when he attaches MDF and LDF file to the SQL instance, attach is successful, but the issue was next to database name it was saying read-only. Let us see how we can FIX Error 5120.