My present article talks about an error that you will encounter when connecting to Oracle database using OPENQUERY. Let us learn about how to fix error 9803.
SQL SERVER – IntelliSense Does Not Work – Enable IntelliSense
While I was working with SQL Server 2008 IntelliSense, I realized that it was not functioning as I expected. Even after I had enabled IntelliSense it was still not opening any suggestions at all. After a while, I figured out some vital information regarding how to make sure IntelliSense smoothly works all the time without you giving any trouble. Let us learn how we can Enable IntelliSense.
SQL SERVER – 2008 – Activity Monitor is Empty – Fix Activity Monitor for All Users
This article is an outcome of the technical discussion of activity monitor and its behavior with my friend and SQL Expert Tejas Shah. Tejas told me that he does not like to re-write content from MSDN, but rather prefer to write real life scenarios, as that prepares him to become a better SQL Expert. While discussing about Activity Monitor he informed that it throws an error when there is a permissions issue. He has even blogged about how to give permissions to user to launch activity monitor on his blog . Tejas asked me to write on the same subject for SQL Server 2008. Here is the article covering the discussion I had with Tejas.
SQLAuthority News – 900th Article – 9 Best Practices – Important Milestones
Today is my 900th article on this blog. You can see list of all the 900 articles here. I suggest you go over the list and read any article you like.
SQL SERVER – UDF – Pad Ride Side of Number with 0 – Fixed Width Number Display
SQL SERVER – UDF – Pad Ride Side of Number with 0 – Fixed Width Number Display. Let us learn more about this blog.
SQL SERVER – Pad Ride Side of Number with 0 – Fixed Width Number Display
Today we will look something which is very quick and but quite frequently useful string operation over numeric datatype. This article is written based on a question asked by one of the users (name not disclosed as per request). Let us see how to show a fixed width number display.
SQL SERVER – Disabling Indexes – Non Clustered Indexes
I came across a fantastic T-SQL script that offers an additional feature for changing the recovery mode while enabling and disabling indexes.