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SQL Server – Playing With Trace Flags
Trace flags are used to temporarily set specific server characteristics or to switch off a particular behavior. They are usually scoped to a global level or a session only level. For this blog post I...
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Azure pricing
Not a technical post today (not that I am technical) but still an important one. I have been using Azure for 1.5 years now and I am still fascinated by the ever-changing technology. Talking of...
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SQL SERVER – Fix Connection Error – [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server...
As a part of my quick consultancy, I was contacted by a client who was having trouble where the application was not able to connect to SQL Server. We all joined the call and desktop sharing to learn...
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I use Elastic database pools – for now
When you have many SQL databases that are required to run your environments and they show signs of specific usage patterns and some of the databases requires different performance levels then how can...
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SQL SERVER – FIX Error – Cluster Network Name showing NETBIOS status as “The...
Over a period, I have learned that fixing an issue is easier if we know which log we should look at and what we should search on google. Here is the situation which I was into few days back. In this...
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DMV to Replace DBCC INPUTBUFFER Command – Interview Question of the Week #100
Question: Is there any way to replace DBCC INPUTBUFFER Command?Answer: In a recent interview, I heard this question and it caught me off guard. Honestly, when I heard this question being asked to...
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Migrating reports between SSRS report servers simplified with new PowerShell...
I recently needed to replicate all of the reports on one report server to a different server. I started downloading each report one at a time to a file system folder, moving them to the other machine...
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SQL SERVER – Errors When Disk Space is the Reason
In the past, I have written a number of blogs when it comes to working with errors pertinent to disk space running out. In this blog, I try to consolidate the common messages you are going to see in...
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#0396 – SQL Server – SSIS – Move and rename a file – “Could not find part of...
If a file has to be renamed and moved to a different folder, one cannot use the "Move File" operation in a File System Task. One should use the "Rename File" Task.
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Monday Coffee 2016-12-05
You are the DBA your company makes you. Aren’t you?SQL Server has such a wide range of features that no DBA role will implement all of them. So, you use a certain subset in each role that you occupy...
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December: A two-line play.
“Wow! A family, a marathon, and two businesses! So how do you keep up with it all?” asked Twitter. “Work-life balance,” she replied, glancing furtively at her sparsely populated blog. Fin (P.S. The...
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SQL SERVER – Speed Up Performance Without Code Change
In this blog post we are going to leave about how to Speed Up Performance Without Code Change or Configuration Change in SQL Server. This blog post is going to be a fun and quick read.Please make sure...
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Checking your Wait Stats via Power BI
Wait stats is my go to thing, however I do get bored just querying it via a table so I decided to broaden my horizons and see how “analytical” I could get with it via Power BI. What I usually …...
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SQL SERVER – FIX – Error: 26023 – TCP Port is Already in Use
One of my clients approach me that after patching of SQL instances, database mirroring stopped working. As usual, I asked them to share ERRORLOG file SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to...
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Linux – How to Change Group and User Ownership of a Directory – using chown &...
In this post, let’s learn how to use chgrp and chown commands to change group and user ownership of a directory On a Linux server, by default, the group owner of a file or directory is the primary...
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TDE Recovery
This week’s TSQL Tuesday is being held by the mighty Kenneth Fisher – Backup and Recovery- see this link, how can I not get involved with this one? I have been blogging for about a year now and have...
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SQL SERVER Management Studio – Taking DB Offline Made Easier
I have an appetite to observe and learn from what happens around me more. These are the best ways we realize how life has been gifted to us. Since I have been traveling lately like mad with families...
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Microsoft R Server 9.0 now available
Microsoft today announced the availability of R Server 9.0 on MSDN and Visual Studio Dev Essentials. This new release is built on top of the latest open source R engine, and comes with several new...
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SQL SERVER – Error: 26014 – Unable to Load User-Specified Certificate
After seeing various issues with SQL Server startup problem, I felt that I know almost most of the errors, but I was wrong till someone contacted me with a new error. But I learned that Errorlog is...
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NOLOCK
NOLOCK, some say it’s a fast option for queries and will never cause blocking, I say it’s quite dirty and MAY cause blocking. I used to think that a NOLOCK (which is the same as read uncommitted) hint...
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