Arun Sirpal

I am a Senior DBA with interest in MS technology especially SQL Server and Azure. During 2015 I was mentored by Paul Randal – Data Platform (SQL Server) MVP and during 2016 I completed my SQLskills Immersion training on Internals and Performance Tuning. When I am not working I am in the gym burning calories.

Community work

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

I have been really busy lately with articles, podcasts and so forth. Lately I have been working on 2 public...

2016-04-16

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SQL Bite-Size Podcasts are live!

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Well, after many late nights I have finally produced a set of podcasts – Bite size style – therefore called SQL Bite...

2016-03-27

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SQL Server Podcasts

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Great news, I have decided to do some podcasts on the fundamentals of SQL Server, my aim is to help...

2016-03-23

390 reads

SQL Server articles

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Between attending SQL SKILLS immersion events, trying out for the PFE role at Microsoft I have managed to write some...

2016-03-16

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Creating SQL databases on Azure Blob storage

by Arun Sirpal

SQLServerCentral.com

SQL Server 2014

Creating a database in SQL Server running in on-premises with a dedicated storage location for your data in Windows Azure Blob Storage.

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2015-09-17

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An Extended Event script

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

I have been enjoying XE alot recently ( from following SQLSKILLS) so I decided to write something that I used recently...

2015-05-22

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Carving up CHECKDB

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

This is a technique that I am using from Paul Randal – concept of splitting CHECKDB: CHECKALLOC, CHECKCATALOG and CHECKTABLE – here...

2015-05-16

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Welcome to BlobEater

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

I am an IT Professional from the UK with a huge interest in MS technology especially SQL Server and Azure. During...

2015-03-25

309 reads

A Handy function

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

If you like learning about internals use the undocumented function to get the FileID:PageID of your table rows and use...

2015-03-03

170 reads

Timed SQL Server tracing

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Have you ever wanted to start a SQL trace (server-side trace!) from SQL agent and let it stop after X minutes...

2015-02-07

248 reads

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