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Announcing your PASS Summit 2016 Speaker Idol Contestants
Well the time has come to announce the PASS Summit 2016 Speaker Idol contestants. We had a great group of people submit to present at the speaker idol, and I have to say that the selection process was...
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SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Change in Date Format with Function
Last week we had amazing time with an interesting puzzle about Datetime. You can see the puzzle over SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Playing with Datetime with Customer Data. The puzzle was extremely well...
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Database Deployments in Uncontrolled Environments
The ideal is to make a change and see that change deployed to production, in a perfect world we would be told to work on something, write the code + tests, deploy to a test environment, prove it works...
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Is the MVP Program becoming less technical?
Alt Title: how did you get to be an MVP, Jen Stirrup?The skinny answer: no idea, it’s Microsoft’s Award to give or take away at any point. I am going to have some fun here, and I’d like you to join...
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SQL SERVER – How to Hide Number of Rows Affected Message? – SET NOCOUNT
This blog post be ideally titled as back to basics as it is going to talk about one of the very old topics of SQL Server. Though this may look very simple for many, this blog post conveys the message...
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A quick fix for a full identity column.
A while back I wrote a post on everything I knew about identity columns. In it I mentioned the following:Negative increments can be handy if your identity column has reached the max value of the data...
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Failover Cluster Manager Connection Error Fix
A few days ago I encountered a new error with Failover Cluster Manager. A couple of servers had been rebuilt to upgrade them from Windows Server 2008 to 2012. They were added back to the cluster...
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Making sense of Microsoft technology
In my role as a Data Platform Solution Architect (DPSA) at Microsoft, part of my responsibility is to keep up with all the Microsoft on-prem and cloud data-related technology and trends, as well as...
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SQL SERVER – Set AUTO_CLOSE Database Option to OFF for Better Performance
As many of you know, I am an indecent SQL Server Consultant, who purely focus on SQL Server Performance. Every single day, I keep two slots each hour long available for users who need my help urgently....
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Changing connection colours in SQL Server Management Studio
A simple but effective setting in SQL Server Management Studio is using custom colours to identify which server you are about to execute a query on. It’s simple to setup but not everyone who uses SSMS...
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SSMS Keeps Crashing
It is quite frustrating when SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) randomly crashes, all too often for my liking. If you have the following screen shot then read on.Digging into the event logs I noticed...
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SQL SERVER – How to Join a Table Valued Function with a Database Table
Just another day I received following question and I find it very interesting. I decided to try it out on SQL Server 2016’s new WideWorldImporters database. The question was – “How to Join a Table...
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Are you a data Thought Leader? Call for speakers for Thought Leadership...
Credit: MPI GroupAs part of the Business Analytics Portfolio, I am spearheading a series of Thought Leadership podcasts and I am looking for people to be interviewed in a ‘fireside chat’ format. I am...
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Build Your Own Tools
There are so many ways to look inside SQL Server. New extended events and dynamic management views are introduced every version. But if you want to collect something that’s unavailable, with a little...
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PowerShell – Reading Tables Data Using Script
Earlier in this blog, I have written a number of posts by using PowerShell. The more you play around with this scripting language more are the hidden gems that come out. Personally for me, everyday is...
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Recommended reading from mrdenny for September 23, 2016
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week.SQLSweet16!, Episode 7: Install Option for Instant File InitializationSQL Server on...
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PowerShell, Pester and Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution
If you are a SQL DBA you will have heard of Ola Hallengrens Maintenance solution If you haven’t go and click the link and look at the easiest way to ensure that all of your essential database...
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Identify Used Space in Log File- Interview Question of the Week #090
Question: How to identify Used Space in Log File?Answer: Use following command to display used log file size and total used space in the logfile.DBCC SQLPERF('LOGSPACE')After running above DBCC command...
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SQL SERVER – Patch Installation Error: The version of SQL Server instance...
Applying a patch is something which is part of everyone’s life in the software industry. One of my clients reported below error related to Patch Installation Error.The version of SQL Server instance...
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#0387 – SQL Server – Script to find source backups used in a database restore
Often, in development and test environments, one needs to trace the backups used to restore a particular database. Here is a script to easily get this information.
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