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SQL SERVER – Finding Object Dependencies in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #071
While we are doing development, we create and drop objects. We build new things and we need to understand the relationships between database objects when we are doing various activities in SQL Server....
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Transaction Log Shipping Status Report
History has its own way to define now civilizations thrived. Most of the cities flourished in the river side and transporting lumber was one of the key activity. Most of the cities like Seattle and...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Transaction Reports
Let us start with a personal story. Personal Story – My Daughter and I My day has its own part of long meetings and my daughter tries to pull a string here and there to get my attention almost every...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Queries by CPU and IO
Let me start this blog post with a personal story. Personal Story – Dad and I My fascination for computers started way back when I was about to get into highschool. My father once took me to his office...
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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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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: 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: 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: 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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