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Custom configuring an Azure SSIS integration runtime
I've been doing some Power BI work recently where my customers had on-premises databases that were fairly large. After building a data model in Power BI Desktop that accessed the data directly, we...
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SQL Server Error 824 Troubleshooting Guide
Brief Overview SQL server is a highly popular database management system and despite being efficient in its functioning makes the user encounter some errors during its usage. One such error is the SQL...
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Check Active Transactions In SQL Server DBCC OPENTRAN
Introduction In SQL Server, transactions are the essential components to trace the database logs. The SQL Server executes all its Statements through the transaction logs. After executing the statement...
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SQL Server Availability Group FailoverDetection Utility PowerShell Function...
In my last post I wrote about a new function for gathering the data and running the FailoverDetection utility by the Tiger Team to analyse availability group failovers. I have updated it following...
View ArticleLost the ODBC connection with the SQL Server 2005 database
One of our clients has an application (FoxPro 9) running on top of a SQL Server 2005 backend. Intermittently, they are losing their ODBC connection with the SQL Server database. Below is the initial...
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SQL Server 2019 Extensibility Framework & Java - Hello World
The SQL Server 2016 release introduced the SQL Server Extensibility Framework (EF), which gives us the ability to, from inside SQL Server, execute code in an external language runtime environment. SQL...
View ArticleSQL: Should foreign keys be indexed in SQL Server?
If I create a primary key (let's say a CustomerID in a Customers table) in SQL Server, an index is automatically created to support that key. Primary keys must be unique and not null. SQL Server uses...
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SQL SERVER Small Backup for Large Database
Recently, I had a very interesting experience with one of my customer while working with them on Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check . The issue was related to small backup for the large...
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Write More Compact SQL Server Code Using New Features - Part 2
By:Sergey Gigoyan | Last Updated: 2018-12-03 || Related Tips:More > T-SQL Problem In theprevious article, we have discussed how the new features of SQL Server allows us to rewrite the old code in a...
View ArticleSelect only the new date using sqlserver
I have a table with only 3 columns that I am trying to select only the most recent/newer date: account_id - event_time - sign 2251 2017-03-28 19:00:04 YES 2250 2017-03-28 15:45:11 NO 2250 2017-03-28...
View ArticleSQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Monitoring and Alerting - Part 2
By:Alejandro Cobar | Last Updated: 2018-12-03 || Related Tips:More > Availability Groups Problem In the part 1 of this tip series , I showed you how to build the inventory of replicas that form an...
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Giving Back to the Community: 12 Hours of Columnstore Knowledge in 2019
I have always loved the idea of giving back. I can’t even describe how much I have learned and keep on learning from the community, through the blog posts, videos, lectures & conversations at the...
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Navigating SQL Server Error Logs
Navigating SQL Server Error Logs Introduction One of the key skills you need as a database administrator or an IT person is generally the ability to monitor systems very carefully. Lack of this key...
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Run Insert, Update, or Delete without commit in SSMS
This post shows to how to Run Insert, Update, or Delete without commit in SQL Server Management Studio. In some cases you do not want to actually delete or update the rows rather you want to see how...
View ArticleHosting SQL Server on VMWare
Reading Time: 3 minutes After some dealings with hosting SQL Server on VMWare a while back I thought I’d share a couple you can do to make your life easier. First thing to do is make sure you use the...
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The STRING_SPLIT function in SQL Server
This article will cover the STRING_SPLIT function in SQL Server including an overview and detailed usage examples. SQL Server users usually need string parsing and manipulation functions. In several...
View ArticleWhat’s New In SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.1 Graph Support
Now, in the next step we shall create a derived view, which shall contain the list with all Persons and Businesses, joining them together: CREATE OR ALTER VIEW dbo.Followers AS SELECT PersonId as Id,...
View ArticleBuilding Hello World With Java In SQL Server 2019
Niels Berglund shows how you can use sp_execute_external_script to run Java code in SQL Server 2019 : In SQL Server 2019 Microsoft added the ability to execute custom Java code along the same lines we...
View ArticleDeadlocks in a SQL Server Database
Deadlocks in SQL Server happen when 2 (maybe more) processes are fighting over a resource in the database and are trying to obtain an exclusive lock on that resource. When SQL Server decides to pick a...
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SHUTDOWN SQL Server
Recently a friend by the name of Chris Bell ( blog | twitter ) wrote about an easy way to disrupt SQL Server. That disruption comes in the form of the SHUTDOWN TSQL command. You can read what Chris...
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