Recently I was troubleshooting at a customer location something that looked trivial. When the customer approached me for a consulting requirement wherein they were saying their system was going unresponsive every day in the morning around a certain time. They were clueless to what is happening and why this was the case almost every day in the week. I got curious to understand what was going wrong with SQL Agent Jobs.
PowerShell – Script to Listing all Backups Taken with SQL Server
I always like to keep a number of scripts handy in my USB drive with my Laptop. These scripts are used for my internal use when I am suddenly looking for something interesting in customer environments. One of the scripts that I use is shown below. Many a times I have seen customers don’t really have any backup strategy. And when I start working with them, I call out some of the basic backup techniques that they need to be doing.
PowerShell – Tip: How to Format PowerShell Script Output?
I have been writing on various ways of working with PowerShell and how to connect to SQL Server. Personally, when I see text on command prompt it is quite a mess and very difficult to decipher the same. If you play around and look at various blog posts, they show some interesting outputs even though they work to format PowerShell.
PowerShell Scripts – get-process with SQL Server process
Working with powershell scripts can be interesting. I have in the past shown a number of such scripts that we can use with SQL Server. In this blog, I was playing around understanding how I can use the get-process commandlet and how it can be used with SQL Server. This exploration and playing around has got me to write this rather simple yet something useful blog that you might use in your environments.
SQL SERVER – How to Avoid Triggers for Multiple Row Operations in a Table
Customers have a unique way to give you challenges that you never faced. It was one of those evenings that I was working late night on some SQL activity when I received a mail from one of my very old customers. It is rare that I get a ping from them and I was surprised at what had gone wrong. As I started to chat with them, he didn’t know I had recently moved to consulting. This got him double excited and I was unaware to why such a reaction. Your best customers are your best well-wishers too. Let us read about How to Avoid Triggers for Multiple Row Operations in a Table.
Creating and Running an SQL Server Unit Test – Best Ways to Test SQL Queries
I hope it is no secret that testing of written code is as important as writing the code itself, and sometimes even more important. Writing unit test for C#/Java/…code coverage is the responsibility of each software developer.
However, there is not always an opportunity to use autotests. For example, until recently, there were no good computer-aided testing systems for SQL Server, and many people had to create self-made products that were expensive to support and develop. To tell the truth, I was doing that too.
SQL SERVER 2016 – Creating Clustered ColumnStore with InMemory OLTP Tables
I have been writing a lot of my findings with SQL Server 2016 in the recent past. This is also being something I have been investing big time keeping my session at SQLPASS coming in the October timeframe. I will be talking on a number of capabilities and enhancements around SQL Server 2016 from a performance standpoint that it is critical for me to explore some. I invest considerable time in preparation for any session and every single year going to SQLPASS has been the highlight and most of the time it is about hard work to make sure everyone attending my session gets the best of content. Also, it is a great way for me to do due diligence and homework as I prepare with real world problem statement with possible alternatives and solutions as part of my session. Let us learn about Creating Clustered ColumnStore with InMemory OLTP Tables.