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...
View ArticleSQL 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...
View ArticleSQL 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...
View ArticleSQL 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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