I am really having fun working with customers who are pushing the learning barrier in my new consulting role. The more customers I meet; merrier I am because I am getting interesting challenges that push me from the normal comfort zone I am in. Learning is never stopped, but the learning can never be facilitated if we are not in that zone to learn. This customer had a requirement of upgrading to a newer release and in the process was looking at disabling the 15k partitions he had enabled on the DB because this was out-of-box supported in the latest versions. I thought this was important to bring to life am I talking here. In this blog we will learn about Disabling 15000 Partitions.
SQL SERVER – Handling XML Documents – Notes from the Field #125
[Note from Pinal]: This is a 125th episode of Notes from the Field series. Handing XML documents is not an easy task. Trust me till today I see lots of experts struggling when they have to deal with XML. In my early career I used to be scared with the XML as well. Well, now I have proper understanding of the XML documents and I am no longer worried about this subject.
In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Stuart Ainsworth explains about how to work with XML documents.
SQL SERVER 2016 – Management Studio Highlighting Current Line Option
With every new release, there is changes that are being made to the tools that support it. It is tough sometimes to keep up with the pace. I am always an old school guy and I try not to change the style that involves changes to the way things function. When I installed SQL Server 2016 Management Studio, there was something fresh about the IDE, but I was trying to get to terms to why I was feeling little weird. Let us learn about Highlighting Current Line Option in SSMS 2016.
SQL SERVER – Steps to Migrate Clustered Disk / LUN
This was a clustered instance, so we need to take care of dependency also. Here are the steps which I have outlined for Migrate Clustered Disk.
Primary Key and Null in SQL Server – Interview Question of the Week #071
Question: Can Primary Key on any table contain NULL values? Why? Answer: Primary key on any table in SQL Server can not contain a null value.
SQL SERVER – Understanding FAILOVERCLUSTERROLLOWNERSHIP with SQL Server Cluster Rolling Upgrade
I started to hunt in the blog and saw there were a number of posts around (FAILOVERCLUSTERROLLOWNERSHIP) the cluster that caught my eyes: