Have you ever felt when you get hired to do a job and your customers ask you question, which you would have not imagined in your wildest dream? Well, just happened to me yesterday where I was asked how to write T-SQL to show alternate rows color in table background in HTML.
How to Find Service Account for SQL Server and SQL Server Agent? – Interview Question of the Week #179
Question: How to Find Service Account for SQL Server and SQL Server Agent?
Answer: As they say – There are more ways than one to skin a cat. In this blog, we will find multiple methods to find out service account used for SQL Server service and SQL Agent Service
SQL SERVER – Transfer Logins Error: Msg 15419: Supplied Parameter sid Should be Binary(16) – sp_help_revlogin
While I was writing my earlier blog, I came across another interesting issue with sp_help_revlogin script. In this blog we would learn about the cause of Msg 15419, “Supplied parameter sid should be binary(16)” while transferring the login using sp_help_revlogin and see how to fix it.
How Much Work Each Processor (CPU) is Doing in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #178
Question: How Much Work Each Processor (CPU) is Doing in SQL Server?
Answer: To be honest, I have not seen this question asked in any of the interview questions so far. Actually, this question was asked by one of my clients during Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Every time whenever he logs into his system, he finds his CPU running very very high even though he had over 56 active processors. What he really wanted to know what exactly is going on behind the scene of his processors. He really wanted to figure out, how busy his servers are and how much work is pending per Processor (CPU)?
SQL SERVER – Adding Values WITH OVER and PARTITION BY
Once in a while, I get questions where users have indeed explained the question well enough that I can easily understand their question. If I understand question quickly, I am always able to answer it efficiently as well. In this blog post, we will see one such question which I answered with keywords WITH OVER and PARTITION BY.
SQL SERVER – How to DELETE Multiple Table Together Via SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)?
Question: How to DELETE Multiple Table Together Via SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)?
SQL SERVER – How to Fix CONVERT_IMPLICIT Warnings?
One of the biggest issues I see with at various of my customer who signed up at Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, is about CONVERT_IMPLICIT. As soon as I demonstrate my customer that they are not getting performance due to CONVERT_IMPLICIT their next question is how can they fix the issue of CONVERT_IMPLICIT. In this single blog post, we will learn about how to find this issue and fix it as well.