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
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Vinay Thakur
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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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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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
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Back to school
Hey, I realize that future we need to know Database system, No SQL and Big Data. with that as things are moving to machine learning and AI system which...
2019-11-02
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Read-only URL removal
When I blog to configure Read only replica. it would require to provide read-only URL information, and provide the replica sequence. but their is no easy way to remove...
2019-10-30
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Error 9002
This is very important error whenever you see this error it is clear that your database has “TLOG FILE FULL” and this could result into maintenance job failed or...
2019-10-30
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Fail to cycle errorlog
sometime we observed that errorlog recycle is failed this happens when we monitor/read errorlog using our monitoring tool or monitoring application/scripts during this task if we want to recycle...
2019-10-29
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Read-only Replica -AG
Read only replica is a great concept where we can re-direct all the read only connections to that replica. Following are some of the great articles for it....
2019-10-25
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MSDB Size growing
msdb is growing due to queue. their is a great blog to help to reduce this How to reduce MSDB size from 42Gb to 200Mb query to get object...
2019-09-12
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers