Vinay Thakur


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POWERSHELL -SQL Assessment

June/July 2019 Microsoft – powershell is providing another great feature with SMO and SQL Server module as SQL Assessment. This is a great feature where Microsoft- SQL Server is...

2020-01-01

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Next Powershell 6+ (CORE) and 7

Powershell is no longer been installed or delivered with windows bundle after 5.x and new powershell would be independent of windows/operating system. powershell would be a separate system /world...

2019-12-21

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Cursor Dynamic SQL

Today was working on SQL Server cursor standard cursor deification would be like this: sqlcursor from (Azure Data Studio) ———————————————————————————————————————– — Declare a cursor for a Table or a View ‘TableOrViewName’ in schema ‘dbo’ DECLARE @ColumnName1 NVARCHAR(50), @ColumnName2 NVARCHAR(50) DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name FROM dbo.TableOrViewName OPEN db_cursor FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @ColumnName1, @ColumnName2 WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0...

2019-11-19

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Transaction log Information gathering

Here are the different ways to know the tlog file related information sys.dm_db_log_stats – Provide summary of tlog information SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_log_stats(db_id()) sys.dm_db_log_info -DMV function for VLF information...

2019-11-14

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Smart Tlog Bkp

another great new feature for SQL Server 2017 is a smart backup with dmv sys.dm_db_log_space_usage this DMV provide log usage information using this we can plan to initiate the...

2019-11-05

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SQL Server 2019 GA

Yes, Finally SQL Server 2019 is Generally Available yesterday Nov 4th 2019. It has many great features great videos: https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/dutchdatadude   https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2019/11/04/gain-intelligence-over-data-with-sql-server-2019-now-generally-available/ https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2019/11/04/sql-server-2019-is-now-generally-available/    

2019-11-05

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Question of the Day

Running SQLCMD I

I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:

lcmd -S localhost -E
I then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version go
If I hit enter, what happens?

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