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How to Measure Resource Status on Azure? – Interview Question of the Week #264

February 16, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Azure, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Every single time when I start working with Azure, I always want to know what is the status of Azure resource status or consumption in the last hour.

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MySQL – Download Sample Database – Sakila, World, Employee

February 15, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Schema, SQL Sample Database, SQL Server

Get MySQL sample databases Sakila, World, and Employees. Follow Windows install steps, verify each import, and choose the right dataset.

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ssms install error

SQL SERVER – SSMS Install Error 0x80070652 – Setup is Blocked Due to Another Install Currently running. Please Let the Other Install Complete and then Restart the Computer if Necessary

February 14, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Installation, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Setup

SSMS install error 0x80070652 says setup is blocked due to another install currently running. Here is what fixed it for me.

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Index Design Rules: Ten Don’ts and Where They Break

February 13, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

These index design rules came from a client’s list of ten index don’ts, and readers argued with several of them. This post turns the checkable rules into read-only queries on a demo database, and it measures what each rule really costs. The rest are warnings, not laws, and the post says which is which.

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OPTION FAST N: First Rows Sooner, Total Reads Higher

February 11, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, Query Hint, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

OPTION FAST N tells SQL Server to plan for the first N rows, so the first rows arrive in milliseconds and the whole result costs much more. This post measures both sides on 300,000 rows with logical reads and time to the first row. It also explains why the hint belongs to paging and not to tuning.

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What is the Replacement of DBCC DBREINDEX? – Interview Question of the Week #263

February 9, 2020
Pinal Dave
Personal
Maintenance Plan, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

Question: What is the Replacement of DBCC DBREINDEX?

Answer: The answer to this question is very simple.

Here is the syntax:

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SQL SERVER – Always On Listener Creation Failure – Enabling Object ProdListener Failed With Error 5

February 8, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
AlwaysOn, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster, Windows

I have written a few blogs where I explained a few issues about the failure of listener creation failure in a cluster. Let us learn about it.

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