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
11,717 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)
35,339 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
1,959 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
5,957 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
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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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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers