How to repair corrupted WMI Repository?
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows-based operating systems. WMI is the Microsoft implementation of Web-based Enterprise...
View ArticleHow to find the Isolation level being used by a Database?
Hi Friends, Recently i was preparing a Dashboard sheet for one of our critical Box. The Client was having a long list of Requirements and one odd requirement was to embbed the Isolation level being...
View ArticleCompare Data in Two SQLServer Tables without Any 3rd-Party Tool
For comparing data in tables you don’t need any 3rd party tool, SQL Server ships with the tablediff utility which can be used to compare the data in two tables. You can use it for troubleshooting...
View ArticleWhat all changes require a restart of SQL Service?
Question of the day: What all changes require a restart of SQL Service? Let’s say you get a request to change a SQL Server setting and you don’t know whether it requires a restart of SQL Service to...
View ArticleAuto-Truncate Log in Full Recovery Model
FULL Recovery model: This means that all database changes are fully logged and ideally the log records should stay in the log file until the log records are safely stored away\backed up in a...
View ArticleSQL Server Password Audit for SQL Server Logins
SQL Server Password audit is a must for all SQL Servers. Weak or Blank passwords are invitation to trouble and such type of passwords may result in security breach. Everybody knows the importance of...
View ArticleBuilt in Functions in SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 introduced 14 new built in functions. These new functions are: Conversion functions PARSE TRY_CONVERT TRY_PARSE Date and time functions DATEFROMPARTS DATETIME2FROMPARTS...
View ArticleWhy the size of the backup file changes?
Hi Friends, Have you ever noticed, while taking a compressed backup the file which gets created initially has a different size than the final file size when the backup completes. To be more precise,...
View ArticleUnable to open Maintenance Plans in SSMS
Hi Friends, A few days back, I got a backup failure alert regarding one of our most critical SQL Instance. I quickly connected to our jump-box and took a session of the server to diagnose further. From...
View ArticleMemory Configuration Changes | SQL Server 2012
Hi Friends, There are a few changes in SQL Server 2012 in Memory Manger, and a DBA should be aware of such changes before upgrading or installation of SQL 2012 Instance on production. In Earlier...
View ArticleWhich trigger will be triggered first?
Hi Friends, Yesterday I was working on a specific requirement of a client to create DDL trigger for a Database to log & validate certain things. While doing so I discovered there were already two...
View ArticleMemory Shortage for all 32 Bit SQL Server 2012 Instances
Hi Friends, As you all know AWE has been deprecated and not available from SQL Server 2012 (Find details here), as a result when you upgrade from SQL Server 2008 R2 to the next version of SQL...
View ArticleSQL Server AWE Enabled Option | Deprecated
Like we already know, Windows-based applications can use Windows AWE (Address Windowing Extensions) APIs to allocate and to map physical memory into the process address space. AWE allow 32-bit...
View ArticleCalculate Number of Leaves – excluding weekends
Hi Friends, Sometime back I was answering questions on TechNet Forum when I saw an interesting and genuine problem. The user wanted to calculate the number of leaves taken by an employee excluding...
View ArticleTrace Flag 2371 to Control Auto update Statistics threshold and behaviour in...
Hi Friends, As you already know, the auto update statistics feature of SQL Server relies on number of rows changed or updated to determine if statistics update is needed. The statistics of a table...
View ArticleFind Jobs scheduled to run during a specific time range
Hi Friends, Today I was going to raise a change which was related to SAN Migration for one of our production servers. The affected server will not be available for almost 3 hours. I prepared the plan...
View ArticleError while opening SQL Server Configuration Manager – Fixed
Hi Friends, Today I again experienced the same old frustrating error while opening SQL Server Configuration Manager on one of the SQL Servers. Refer the screenshot below. The error says: Cannot...
View ArticleSQL Tip-12 | Using SQL Server Backup to Windows Azure Tool – Part2
In last part we discussed the installation, configuration and usage of the SQL Server Backup to windows azure tool. In this part we’ll discuss some internals of this tool and how to restore the backups...
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SQL Tip-11 | Using SQL Server Backup to Windows Azure Tool
As you know there are so many cool benefits of using Windows Azure Storage Account, everybody want to use it to get advantage. Last month i blogged about “SQL DB Backup to URL\Cloud” feature which was...
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SQL Tip-10 | SQL Server Database Backup to Cloud (Microsoft Azure)
This feature can help you leverage the power of Cloud with your SQL instance and taking your backups directly on Cloud. Backup to URL is not new to SQL 2014, it was first introduced in SQL Server 2012...
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