SQL Server Error 3013: Restore Database is Terminating Abnormally
Overview of SQL Server Error 3013
One of the most frustrating situations that a user experiences while working with SQL Server...
2018-02-17
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SQL Server Overview
A Guide for Decrypting SQL Server Database Objects
Overview
The SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 provide a new feature for encrypting data to protect it from...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-16)
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Forensic Analysis of Log files in SQL Server
The Importance of Log Files in SQL Server
On the SQL server every day we perform many transactions and as we...
2018-02-05
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Top Five Backup and Recovery Plans for SQL Database
Introduction
Creating a good backup and recovery plan for SQL database is a very important task of a database administrator. A...
2018-02-02
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Managing SQL Server Transaction Log File
Overview
In our previous section we have discussed how to create an audit trigger in SQL Server and how it helps...
2018-01-29
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Learn Different Options for Importing Data Into SQL Server
Most of the time users need to import their data into SQL Server for its proper management. Select from the...
2018-01-22
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What Does REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS in SQL Server Signify?
REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS is the repair level, which is recommended by DBCC CHECKDB when the database is found in a corrupted state.SQL...
2018-01-19
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How to Run DBCC CHECKDB to Check SQL Database Integrity
Database Console Command CHECKDB (DBCC CHECKDB)is used to check the integrity (physical & logical) of objects in a SQL Server database.The...
2018-01-17
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Steps to Configure SQL Server to Listen On A Specific TCP Port
Management of the database is very much essential in today’s date and for doing this, there is a need to...
2018-01-15
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Alwayson Availability Groups vs Alwayson Failover Cluster Instances
SQL Server is one of the finest database management system deployed by organizations for storing and retrieving their data. It...
2018-01-22 (first published: 2018-01-13)
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Blogs
Sample Data with GenAI in Seconds
By Steve Jones
A friend was asking for help with some data analysis. This was in PowerBI,...
TSQL Tuesday #188 Growing community
I am responding late to a T-SQL Tuesday invite from John Sterrett. John’s call...
Time to Revive our YouTube Channel
It’s been forgotten about and neglected for few years but I’ve decided to dust...
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How a Legacy Logic Choked SQL Server in a 30-Year-Old Factory
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do i lose "what this object depends on" etc when moving sprocs to etl server
Hi i was surprised to see the approach my coworkers used to sunset talend...
People Make Odd Choices
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Question of the Day
Query Plan Regressions --
For the Question of the day, I am going to go deep, but try to be more clear, as I feel like I didn't give enough info last time, leading folks to guess the wrong answer... :) For today's question: You’re troubleshooting a performance issue on a critical stored procedure. You notice that a previously efficient query now performs a full table scan instead of an index seek. Upon investigating, you find that an NVARCHAR parameter is being compared to a VARCHAR column in the WHERE clause. What is the most likely cause of the query plan regression?
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