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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Vinay Thakur
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
66 reads
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
339 reads
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
111 reads
Azure Data Studeo- Nov 2019 Release
SQL Server Management studio is now can be installed separately not part of SQL Server package. with this enhancement SSMS has several features and version is getting updated and...
2019-11-12
36 reads
AG without WSFC SQL 2017 and more…
Starting Sql Server 2017 Microsoft can allow you to enable the configuration manager for “Always ON” feature for standalone system without WSFC and linux without Pacemaker . it has...
2019-11-11
38 reads
MAXDOP and Tempdb – SQL 2016
Starting SQL Server 2016 Max Degree of Parallellism (Max DOP) Macrosoft has made hanges on this and now we can set it at database level. This helps for replication...
2019-11-09
184 reads
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
87 reads
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
21 reads
Resumable online index rebuild
continue on whats new SQL Server 2017 their is a great feature call resumable online index, means online index now has an option to PAUSE and RESUME or ABORT...
2019-11-04
142 reads
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...
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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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