T-SQL query to find the list of objects referring Linked Servers
T-SQL query to find the list of objects referring Linked Servers
2021-01-19 (first published: 2021-01-13)
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Brahmanand Shukla
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Query to list all the procedures and triggers not having SET NOCOUNT ON defined
It is a tiny query in size but can play a crucial role to avoid overhead, caused due to missing SET NOCOUNT ON definition in the stored procedures and...
2021-01-14
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T-SQL script to find hierarchy of tables – Row-wise result
As I promised in my previous post T-SQL script to find hierarchy of tables – Columnar result – SQL Server Carpenter, here is another version of the query to...
2021-01-14 (first published: 2021-01-07)
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Game changer settings # MAXDOP and Cost threshold for parallelism
I got a performance tuning assignment for an esteemed customer in the Financial Services domain. I went through the wait stats of SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server...
2021-01-07 (first published: 2021-01-02)
2,355 reads
T-SQL script to find hierarchy of tables – Columnar result
One of my LinkedIn connection reached out to me for help, to find the hierarchy of all the tables in a database. He was in dire need of some...
2021-01-07
58 reads
Storage savings with Table Compression
In one of my recent assignments, my client asked me for a solution, to reduce the disk space requirement, of the staging database of an ETL workload. It made...
2021-01-06 (first published: 2020-12-31)
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Estimating the storage savings by removing columns with NULL value across the table or marking them as SPARSE
In the previous article Find columns with NULL values across the table we discussed that storage space can be saved by removing columns with NULL value across the table...
2020-12-30 (first published: 2020-12-21)
735 reads
Find columns with NULL values across the table
Recently, I was working on one of the performance tuning assignment with an esteemed client. The size of their databases were growing tremendously. Growth in the database size is...
2020-12-22 (first published: 2020-12-11)
621 reads
Tracking costliest queries
Being a Database Developer or Administrator, often we work on Performance Optimization of the queries and procedures. It becomes very necessary that we focus on the right queries to...
2020-12-15 (first published: 2020-12-07)
505 reads
Probing Columnstore Indexes
This article was first published on: 2020-03-14.
This article will probe the performance benefits of columnstore indexes, on a transactional (OLTP) workload for real-time analytics.
We'll cover examples...
2020-08-04 (first published: 2020-07-23)
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Fixing the Error
On SQL Server 2025, I have a database that has this collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I decide I want to run this code:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C*3068 and good night', '*') AS 'A Classic';
I get this error:Msg 9844, Level 16, State 4, Line 24 The char/varchar input type uses an unsupported collation. Only a UTF8 collation is supported with char/varchar input type in UNISTR function.What is the easiest way to fix this error? See possible answers