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Backup With Name Command.

What does BACKUP WITH NAME Command do? – Interview Question of the Week #130

July 9, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table

What does BACKUP WITH NAME do? It simply names your backup, and you can then find that name in the msdb backupset table. Here is a quick example.

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SQL in Sixty Seconds.

Get Column Names From a Specific Table – SQL in Sixty Seconds #083

July 6, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table

One of the most popular question I receive is usually about How to get column names from a specific table in SQL Server?

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How to Get Column Names.

SQL Server – How to Get Column Names From a Specific Table?

June 29, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table

How do you get the column names of a specific table in SQL Server? Here are several methods, from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS to my preferred sys.columns query.

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SQL Server DB Size.

SQL SERVER – Simple Query to List Size of the Table with Row Counts

May 25, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table

A simple query I run at customer sites to list every table with its size in MB and Row Counts, including used and unused space.

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SQL Server query properties.

SQL SERVER – How to Find Row Count of Every Table in Database Efficiently?

May 24, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table

How do you find the row count of every table in a database without a cursor? An interview question, answered with a fast query instead of a loop.

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Title card: Error 17113: Error Opening master.mdf at Startup

SQL SERVER – Error 17113, Severity: 16 – Error Occurred While Opening File ‘master.mdf’ to Obtain Configuration Information at Startup

February 21, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table, System Database

I broke my own SQL Server by editing startup parameters. Here is how the ERRORLOG helped me fix error 17113, error opening master.mdf at startup.

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Special Icon on System-Versioned Table in SQL Server 2016 - Interview Question of the Week #101

Special Icon on System-Versioned Table in SQL Server 2016 – Interview Question of the Week #101

December 11, 2016
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL System Table, Temporal Table

Expanding tables in WideWorldImporters in SSMS 2016, you see an icon like a watch. It marks a System-Versioned table, also known as a temporal table.

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