Microsoft Data Platform – MVP 2017!!!
I’m very pleased and delighted to share that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award 2017. This...
2017-04-14
433 reads
SQL Geek
Read Statistics Histogram using DMV
DMV: sys.dm_db_stats_histogram (object_id, stats_id)
For a long time, the DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS command was the only way to get information about statistics....
2017-02-22
954 reads
Out of memory error because of the very low virtual address space – Error 701 – Trace Flag 8075
If you are dealing with a SQL Server which got a lot of memory, you may encounter the out of...
2017-02-20
1,273 reads
After migrating SQL Server from 2005 to higher version, the waits type PAGELATCH_UP increased
Recently, I experienced an interesting issue where I found SQL Server wait type PageLatch_UP went up drastically after migration. Let’s...
2017-02-06
524 reads
SQL Server Service Information
DMV: sys.dm_server_services
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and SQL Server 2012 has a new set of DMVs. One of them...
2017-01-11
364 reads
Disk Space Monitoring using SQL Server DMV
DMV : sys.dm_os_volume_stats
Being a SQL Server database administrator, you may often receive alerts or asked by Senior DBAs to check, if...
2017-01-09
17,574 reads
New String Function – TRIM – in SQL Server vNext
As SQL developer, you must have often come across a scenario where you need to remove the empty spaces at...
2017-01-06
2,066 reads
When was SQL Server installed?
In this blog post. Let us learn about how to retrieve date and time when the SQL Server was installed. To retrieve...
2017-01-04
13,416 reads
Identifying Blocking Chain in SQL Server
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!!
I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. I always try to review my...
2017-01-01
11,563 reads
Configure Internal and Private Networking for Hyper-V Virtual Machines
In the previous tutorial, we went through how to setup “External Network” to access the internet on Hyper-v client machine....
2016-12-25
2,782 reads
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All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...
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Fabric Mirroring
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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