SQL Server – DBCC COMMANDS (Information Statements)- DBCC INPUT BUFFER
The DBCC INPUT BUFFER comes under the information statements category of the DBCC commands. The DBCC INPUT BUFFER Command gives the last request from the client to the instance. DBCC...
View ArticleSQL Server – DBCC COMMANDS (Information Statements)- DBCC OPENTRAN
DBCC OPENTRAN is used to identify the active transactions that may preventing the log truncation. DBCC OPENTRAN displays information about the oldest active transaction and oldest distributed and non...
View ArticleSQL Server- Shrinking and Growing databases
DBA’s normally create databases – Right? Most of us know about the best practices in creating a database. Here I am giving a short note on shrinking and growing of databases. While we configure the...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 – SQL Server Configuration Manager missing in Windows 8
SQL Server Configuration Manager is a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console program and not a stand-alone program, SQL Server Configuration Manager not does not appear as an application when...
View ArticleSQL Server – How to hide an SQL Server Database Engine
To hide an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine In SQL Server Configuration Manager, expand SQL Server Network Configuration, right-click Protocols for <server instance>, and then select...
View ArticleSQL SERVER- Enabling Lock Pages in Memory (LPIM)
This Windows policy determines which accounts can use a process to keep data in physical memory, preventing the system from paging the data to virtual memory on disk. To enable the lock pages in...
View ArticleSQL Server – What is Scaling Up and Scaling Out with regards to SQL Server
Scaling Up: Involves increasing the capacity of the current hardware to more powerful hardware. Scaling Out: Scaling Out involves increasing the capacity by deploying additional servers. For ex peer to...
View ArticleSQL Server – Database Migration – Move Database from One server to another...
Pre-requisites: Analyze the disk space in the target server. Confirm the data and log file location in the target server. Collect the information about database properties Collect the information about...
View ArticleSQL SERVER 2016 – CTP Released
SQL Server 2016 CTP has been released by Microsoft. SQL Server 2016 comes with In- Memory enhancements and Advance Analytics. The couple of enhancements for SQL Server are related to performance,...
View ArticleSQL Server- Migrate Logins from One server to another server
There is a Microsoft script which we can run it in the source server and script out logins of the source server and run it in the target server. USE master go IF Object_id ('sp_hexadecimal') IS NOT...
View ArticleSQL Server – SQL Server on Linux
Recently Microsoft announced that its new version SQL 2016 will be running on both Windows and Linux. By this I am sure that there will lot of job opportunities to SQL databases administrators. This...
View ArticleHow to Tune Microsoft SQL Server for Performance
To retain its users, any application or website must run fast. For mission critical environments, a couple of milliseconds delay in getting information might create big problems. As database sizes grow...
View ArticleSQL Server – How know AlwaysON Failover Time using TSQL
Do you want to know when AlwaysOn failover happened? This is a script which I got from internet and gives good information about the last failovers. DECLARE @FileName NVARCHAR(4000) SELECT @FileName...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship – A must watch video for CEO’s / Leader’s.
Leadership is nothing but a strong vision, if you have that you can align people, materials, run an organization etc. For vision you need a strong knowledge. Rakesh Gupta (Ex-CEO of ACIS – Allianz...
View ArticleSQL Server – Azure key vault Error – Msg 15507, Level 16, State 1, Line 6 A...
One of our SQL Server which is part of Always On got restarted from Azure side. Once server back online, the Availability group is not coming online. When we look at the SQL error log, we found that an...
View ArticleSQL Server – Replication Topology – Find the SQL Server Replication topology
Replication is a technology in SQL Server used for copying and distributing the data and database objects from one database to another and then synchronizing between databases to maintain consistency....
View ArticleSQL Server – Failover cluster Slipstream Installation
What is Slipstream? Slipstream means embedded installation of SQL server with the available service packs, cumulative updates or Hotfixes. This technology is introduced in SQL Server 2008 and it saves...
View ArticleSQL SERVER – FCI – Error – The resource could not be moved from cluster group...
During one of the SQL Server FCI installation, I faced this error at the end of the Installation. Could not find a solution across the internet. The following workaround will fix this issue. Before...
View ArticleWindows Cluster Configuration Error – Could not detect if cluster feature is...
One of my friend reached to me instantly get one possible help of Windows Fail-over cluster Installation. During his fail-over cluster installation, he could not join the secondary node to the...
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