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It’s that time of the year again. April 1st, where you just wait to see if you have received the magic email from Microsoft saying that you are awarded as a Most Valuable Professional. During this waiting process you just keep on asking yourself: “Was I active enough and contributed as much as possible to … Read more…
Another year has come to an end. Being faithful to the “tradition” of posting the last day of every year my selected tweets for the year that ends, here I am again, posting the “Selected Tweets of Year 2013!”. 2013 was remarkable, especially when it comes to Community. Interacting with you, the SQL Server Community … Read more…
A few days ago I published my second eBook. The title of the book is “Administering SQL Server” and it is for database administrators and architects who monitor and administer SQL Server instances on a regular basis and have as a primary goal to maintain the health of the instances and thus the hosted databases. … Read more…
My first eBook on SQL Server has been released. The title of the book is “Tuning SQL Server” and it is part of “The SQL Server and .NET Blog eBook Series!“. How is the eBook Organized? This book is organized as follows. Chapter 1 discusses the usage of indexes and the derived benefits of … Read more…
I love technology. I love exploring. I love writing about it and share knowledge. I started working with SQL Server and .NET (C#) more than ten years ago. Since then it has been quite a journey! Each release came – and still comes – with exciting new features enabling us to do more and more! … Read more…
SQL Server, has a specific dynamic management view (DMV) which provides detailed information regarding the active locks within the SQL Server instance that is, locks that have been already granted or they are waiting to be granted. The DMV is called: sys.dm_tran_locks. Using the sys.dm_tran_locks DMV for Monitoring Locking in SQL Server The following … Read more…
In this article, we will be discussing about massively detaching and re-attaching databases in SQL Server. Why massively detaching and re-attaching all the databases in a SQL Server instance? There are cases where you might need to massively detach and re-attach all the databases in a SQL Server instance. Such scenario can be a … Read more…
This post, is actually a T-SQL tip, on how to easily insert leading characters to a string. The Scenario for Inserting Leading Characters Consider that you have a fixed-length table column for which you want to add leading characters, so that all its records, values with the same number of characters. How to Insert Leading … Read more…
April 1st: Waiting for the magic email. For the email which says that my MVP status is renewed for another year and so the journey continues. A journey into the amazing world of the Microsoft MVP Award Program, connected directly to the source of one of the world’s greatest technologies: SQL Server! In the afternoon … Read more…
—— Retrieves Security-Related Information— for all the SQL Server Logins—— SQL Server versions supported: SQL Server 2005 or later—SELECT [name] as LoginName,LOGINPROPERTY ([name] , ‘DefaultDatabase’) as DefaultDatabase,LOGINPROPERTY ([name] , ‘DaysUntilExpiration’) as DaysUntilExpiration,(CASE ISNULL(LOGINPROPERTY ([name] , ‘IsExpired’),0) WHEN 0 THEN ‘False’ ELSE ‘True’ END) as IsExpired,(CASE ISNULL(LOGINPROPERTY ([name] , ‘IsLocked’),0) WHEN 0 THEN ‘False’ ELSE ‘True’ END) … Read more…
Hello friends, Another year has come to an end and as being faithful to the “tradition” of posting in the last day of every year my selected tweets for the year that ends, here I am, posting the “Selected Tweets of Year 2012!“. It was another great year of interaction with you, the SQL Server Community. … Read more…
Yeah, I know, who would ever want to do that (!) but the purpose of this post is not to illustrate how you can actually get all the records from all tables in all user databases (even though it shows how to do it) but rather to provide an example of how we can dynamically … Read more…
—— Dynamically builds T-SQL statements for retrieving the file — locations for all the databases in the SQL Server Instance—— SQL Server versions supported: SQL Server 2005 or later—SELECT ‘use ‘+ [name]+’; select ”’+[name]+”’ as DBName,cast ([name] as varchar(45)) as LogicalFileName,cast (filename as varchar(100)) as FileName from sysfiles;’ as SQLStatement FROM master.sys.databases Details: Just execute the statements generated … Read more…
OK folks, it did happen at some point, to get this error message: Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan. For more information, contact Customer Support Services. Reproducing the Internal Query Processor Error Message I was trying to execute the following query: SELECT * FROM dbo.tbl1 WHERE tbl2ID=(SELECT … Read more…
There are times where you need to massively rebuild indexes on some really large databases, after indicated by the relevant analysis of course. However, rebuilding indexes, requires also the adequate amount of free disk space that will be used during the rebuild operation (mainly for the sorting process). Usually the required space is the size of … Read more…