SQL Server Access Control: The Basics
SQL Server provides a number of settings for controlling access to data, metadata, and other SQL Server resources. For those who are new to SQL Server security or don’t manage security routinely,...
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T-SQL Tuesday #081: Sharpen Something Reminder
Sharpen Something Last week I sent out the invite for the August TSQL Tuesday blog party. In that invite I promised to send out a reminder seven days prior to the event. Well it is that time. You are...
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Understanding the COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT clause in SQL Server
By:Simon Liew || Related Tips:More > Database Configurations Problem During a recent database code review, we noticed the COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT clause in many of thestored procedures which join...
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SQL SERVER DMVs to Detect Performance Problems in SQL Server Notes from th ...
[Notes from Pinal]:Performance tuning is a complex subject, and not everyone knows where to start and how to handle this complex subject. There are so many different areas for performance tuning for...
View ArticleFormat Date Column in Excel From SQL Server Export File
Format Date Column in Excel From SQL Server ExportFile Posted: August 3, 2016 | Author: Jingyang Li | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment When I export data to an Excel file from SSMS, the...
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Minimizing SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB Performance Impacts
Overview SQL Server is the most popular relational database management system, which is used by many organizations to maintain their data. Every user expects that data should be stored in a consistent...
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Changes in SQL Server 2016 Checkpoint Behavior
Reviewed by: Denzil Ribeiro, Mike Weiner, Arvind Shyamsundar, Sanjay Mishra, Murshed Zaman, Peter Byrne, Purvi Shah SQL Server 2016 introduces changes to the default behavior of checkpoint. In a...
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Introducing a VCE White Paper. Consolidating SAP, SQL Server and Oracle...
This is just a short blog post to direct readers to a fantastic mixed-workload and heterogeneous database consolidation Proof of Concept. This VCE paper should not be missed. I assert that the VCE...
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SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) custom Delete Stored Procedure
By:Svetlana Golovko || Related Tips:More >Master Data Services Problem By default entity members in Master Data Services (MDS) are not deleted permanently. They are "soft" deleted (deactivated) and...
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SQL Server 2016 Perform Volume Maintenance
One of the server settings that I always enable when configuring a new instance of SQL is database instant file initialisation In case you don’t know what this is, it is a setting that can be granted...
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SQL SERVER Event 17058 initerrlog: Could not Open Error Log File
If you have ever interacted with me or taken my services, you would notice that I always ask for ERRORLOG in almost all of my contact with my client.Once of my friend contacted me and when I asked for...
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New Features in SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services
First introduced in SQL Server 2005, Reporting Services has become one of the most important SQL Server subsystems. Reporting Services enables you to design and run reports using data from SQL Server...
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How to remove a SQL Server Data file for a multi-data file database
By:Manvendra Singh || Related Tips:More > Database Administration Problem You have a SQL Server database with multiple data files and you want to remove one of the data files. This tip will...
View ArticleIntroduction to SQL Server Stretch Database
In many cases Azure SQL Database offers an economically and functionally viable alternative to SQL Server deployments. However, there are also scenarios where we might discover that rather than serving...
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Quickly Find Failed SQL Server Logins Using the Windows Event Log
By:K. Brian Kelley || Related Tips:More >Security Problem My SQL Server is configured to track failed logins (see the tips in the Next Steps section below). I can sift through my SQL Server Error...
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SQL Server Substring with CharIndex
In this article we are going to explore the T-SQL function CharIndex and also how to use it with another T-SQL function Substring(). CharIndex:This function returns the location of a substring in a...
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#0380 SQL Server Basics Specify Scale and Precision when defining Decim ...
I had some interesting conversation during a code review that I was asked to conductfor a simple query that a team had written to support their project monitoring. Theteam was specializing in quality...
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Install SQL Server Management Studio 2016 SQL in Sixty Seconds #080
Earlier this week, I have published a blog post where I explained how to install SQL Server 2016. One of the most asked questions was Where is SQL Server Management Studio 2016? I totally understand...
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SQL SERVER Error: 14258 Cannot perform this operation while SQLServerAgent ...
One of my clients asked assistance in fixing an interesting issue. They informed me that they are not able to run any job in SQL Agent. When they try to run the job manually, they are seeing below...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016: Mission-Critical Applications, Deeper...
Stacia Varga, Denny Cherry, and Joseph D'Antoni wrote: Organization of this book: This book is divided into nine chapters, each of which focuses on a different benefit that you canexperience in the SQL...
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