MS SQL Server : Nested Transaction and Partial Rollback of Transaction
Couple of days back, one of my colleague came to me and asked about partial rollback of a transaction.He was trying...
2012-05-20
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Windows 2008 Server : Moving Cluster Quorum Disk to New SAN
In my earlier post, I have explained how to move the MSDTC disk to new SAN. In this post we...
2012-04-23
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SQL Server: Measuring The Index Fragmentation
In my previous post , I have explained about the different types of fragmentation and how it will affect the query performance....
2012-04-20
11,714 reads
SQL server: Deciphering Wait resource
When I was working with couple of frequent blocking issue in our live server, I have noticed different types of...
2012-04-12
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SQL Server - Index Fragmentation - Understanding Fragmentation
When I had a discussion with couple of my friends about index fragmentation, I realized that they have different understanding...
2012-04-06 (first published: 2012-04-05)
35,320 reads
Caveats of a CONTROL SERVER permission
Today morning I was working on one of the server to complete the regular documentation of security audit with details...
2012-03-29
1,943 reads
Microsoft Failover cluster 2008 : Moving MSDTC to new SAN disk
We have four node cluster on Windows 2008 where the MSDTC disk hosted on a SAN array. Now we have...
2012-03-28
5,952 reads
SQL server 2005 Database Mail stopped functioning after installing Service Pack 3
Recently I have upgraded one of our SQL server 2005 instance to Service Pack 3 and later point of time...
2012-03-26
1,250 reads
How do you secure the SQL Server instance after enabling xp_cmdshell ?
OR
How do you allow non-administrator to use xp_cmdshell ?
From the day I started working with SQL server, I have heard
about...
2012-03-22
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Importing images to SQL server database using T-Sql
Yesterday evening one of the developer asked me that he need a help in importing images into a table. It...
2012-03-15
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Blogs
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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