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SQL SERVER – Getting to understand SQL Server Activity Monitor in SSMS
This site is flooded with blog posts around SQL Server Management Studio’s Activity Monitor capability. In fact, we have written few special case scenarios on how to use the same. In this blog post, I...
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SQL SERVER – Save and Send Execution Plan Via Email
Here is an interesting question, I received the other day. Hi Pinal, I have a very big graphical execution plan and I want to send it to my friend. My first thought was to send him query to execute on...
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SQL SERVER – Trick – Running SSMS With Different Windows Account
Recently in one of my interaction with a DBA inside a big financial organization, I was surprised to see that the administrator was logging into a desktop / server using a different credential. What...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS Query Command(s) completed successfully without ANY Results...
What do you do when you encounter something that you didn’t expect? A lot of times such experiences take you to a state of shock or a state of bafflement. The curiosity sometimes pushes you off the...
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SQL SERVER – Increase Characters Displayed in Text Results
Working with various SQL Server options is always a great feeling. Every now and then I go to the Options page to get just the thing I want. When I wrote the blog post – SQL SERVER – Getting started...
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SQL SERVER – Generating Meaningful Test Data with dbForge Data Generator for...
Recently I faced with necessity of generating meaningful SQL data for testing purposes. During my search for a proper application for the task, I found out that Devart, a recognized developer of...
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SQL SERVER – Finding Tables Created Last Week – DBA Tip
My conversations with my DBA friends are always interesting. They have unique ways to solve problems and organizations take them for granted. Most of the DBA’s want to be in control of their...
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SQL SERVER – Filter In-Memory OLTP Tables in SSMS
Earlier I had written a blog about SQL SERVER – Beginning In-Memory OLTP with Sample Example which covers the basics of working with In-Memory OLTP. Though that post gets you started, one of my...
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SQL SERVER – Customization of New Query in SQL Server Management Studio
Recently I was working with one of my friends who handles production server databases as a senior DBA. He told that recently one of the Jr. DBA was fired from his company because he has run a drop...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS Trick – Generating CSV file using Management Studio
In my previous blog I talked about using SQLCMD to generate a comma separate files for the table data. Some blog readers reported that why we should use SQLCMD or BCP to generate the file when the same...
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SQL SERVER – Search Records with Single Quotes – SQL in Sixty Seconds #075
Earlier I wrote two blog posts about Search Records with Single Quotes in two parts. Refer the blog posts over here. Search Records with Single Quotes Search Records with Single Quotes – Part 2 Though...
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SQL SERVER – Video Introduction to Delayed Durability – SQL in Sixty Seconds...
Earlier I wrote blog post based on my latest Pluralsight course on learning SQL Server 2014. SQL Server 2014 has introduced many new features and one of performance is Delayed Transaction Durability....
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SQL SERVER – Live Plan for Executing Query – SQL in Sixty Seconds #073
Yesterday I wrote blog post based on my latest Pluralsight course on learning SQL Server 2014. I discussed newly introduced live plans. For query before you execute it, you can see the estimated...
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SQL SERVER – CTRL + R Shortcut Does Not Work in SSMS
I just formatted my computer and installed fresh SQL Server 2014. The very first thing which I did was to open SQL Server Management Studio and execute a sample query. As soon as I executed the query,...
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SQL SERVER – Cardinality Estimation and Performance – SQL in Sixty Seconds #072
Yesterday I wrote blog post based on my latest Pluralsight course on learning SQL Server 2014. I discussed newly introduced cardinality estimation in SQL Server 2014 and how it improves the performance...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Memory Usage By Memory Optimized Objects Report
At conferences and at speaking engagements at the local UG, there is one question that keeps on coming which I wish were never asked. The question around, “Why is SQL Server using up all the memory and...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Database Consistency History Report
Doctor and Database The last place I like to visit is always a hospital. With the monsoon season starting, intermittent rains, it has become sort of a routine to get a cycle of fever every other year...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Backup and Restore Events Report
A DBA wears multiple hats and in fact does more than what an eye can see. One of the core task of a DBA is to take backups. This looks so trivial that most developers shrug this off as the only...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Disk Usage Report
Let us start with humor! I think we the series on various reports, we come to a logical point. We covered all the reports at server level. This means the reports we saw were targeted towards...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Object and Batch Execution Statistics Reports
The month of June till mid of July has been the fever of sports. First, it was Wimbledon Tennis and then the Soccer fever was all over. There is a huge number of fan followers and it is great to see...
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