Today, we are going to see one of the most underutilized features of SQL Server IIF. In SQL Server we can performance IF…THEN logic in T-SQL with IIF Expression but I hardly see it being used at most of the organization.
How to Track Autogrowth of Any Database? – Interview Question of the Week #205
Question: How to Track Autogrowth of Any Database?
SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Check SQL Server Job History
Yesterday my long time customer from New Zealand asked me during our regular weekly meet of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check if I know a T-SQL Script to Check SQL Server Job History.
SQL SERVER – How to Write Correlated Subquery?
This is a follow-up blog post to my earlier blog post written about SQL SERVER – Writing Your First Subquery From a Single Table. In the blog post, we discuss how to write a correlated subquery and why it is actually necessary. In a query, a correlated subquery is a subquery that uses values from the outer query. Subqueries are usually running once for each row processed for outer query and that is why they are often inefficient as well.
SQL SERVER – Writing Your First Subquery From a Single Table
My primary responsibility is to help different organizations with tuning their SQL Server Performance and here is the link to my most popular service SQL Server Performance Health Check. I often encounter complicated performance problems which are not easy to resolve, however, recently during the lunch break, I was asked by Junior developer a question about writing a subquery from a single table by a Junior DBA at the organizations.
SQL SERVER – Cannot Shrink Log File Because Total Number of Logical Log Files
Since I wrote my article about the script of shrinking the Log Files, there have been many emails from my blog readers about various messages.
SQL SERVER – Information Message: Cannot shrink file in database to xxxx pages as it only contains yyyy pages.
I often get emails from my blog readers asking various types of clarifications about my own blog. Here is one of the interesting questions from a reader about message Cannot shrink file in the database to xxxx pages as it only contains yyyy pages which he encountered after following my below blog.