Dealing with database performance issues has to be a priority, regardless of the scope or scale of your server infrastructure. Of course, if you don’t know what to look for, …
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How to Avoid Activity Monitor Hurting Your SQL Server’s Performance
There is no question that monitoring the performance of your SQL Server deployment is an important part of any DBA’s maintenance and troubleshooting responsibilities. However, the integrated tool provided by …
Read More »Random value for DATETIME column
Today, I am going to describe how to generate random value for DATETIME field within a given range. This is very useful specially for generating test data. For this, we …
Read More »Free Methods to Repair SQL Server Index Corruption
This article shares the importance of indexes in a SQL database. Also, it provides a brief overview of the clustered and nonclustered indexes. Further, the article discusses reasons for SQL …
Read More »Fill In Missing Dates for SQL Server Query Output using CTE
Last week one of my colleagues requested me to help him write a query to fill in missing dates in query output. I came across couple of solutions, neither seemed …
Read More »Cannot shrink ‘read only’ database | Shrink Transaction Log While Using AlwaysOn Availability Group
I got ” Cannot shrink ‘read only’ database ” error during Shrink Transaction Log While Using AlwaysOn Availability Group.
Read More »Azure SQL Database administration Tips and Hints Exam (DP-300)
Finally, I got my certification Azure Database administrator Associate for Exam (DP-300) after two times failure, during the journey of study I watched many courses, videos, and articles, and this post of …
Read More »JSON in SQL Server
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is very popular standard for exchanging data specially in REST API. Almost all modern websites, android or iOS app use this for exchanging data with server. …
Read More »SQL CASE Statement
SQL CASE statement is very powerful and versatile. It can be used in SELECT, UPDATE and INSERT statement. Even it can be used in ORDER BY and GROUP BY clause. …
Read More »Software Review – Stellar Repair for MS SQL
I am going to share my experience about how I was able to recover my SQL database from SUSPECT mode. Problem at hand About a week ago, I was inserting …
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