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In the previous part of this tutorial , I demonstrated the procedure to create & customize the SqlDiag.xml for use with the SQLDiag utility. I began by going through the manual editing process, followed by the graphical utility - SQLDiag Configuration Tool – from CodePlex . Today, in the final part...
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As mentioned in Part 01 of this tutorial series, one of the key responsibilities of SSMS was to replace the erstwhile SQL Server Enterprise Manager – the interface that is used to manage & maintain the SQL Server instance configuration. In addition to the tools and utilities available within the...
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More often than not, there is a myth in the developer community that Microsoft SQL Server does not provide the debugging abilities that other IDEs provide. Even SQL Server 2000 provided basic debugging ability. Starting Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the product now comes with it’s own Management Studio...
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Performance tuning & analysis during new development has it’s own unique challenge – on one hand as database developers, we need a clean procedure cache and on the other hand, we do not want to impact the performance of other databases on the same instance. To start from a cold procedure cache, we...
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Recently at the office, we ended up discussing the BIT data type ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177603.aspx ). While we all understand that BIT is supposed to represents a Boolean value, we were not quite convinced. Boolean values are two-state – they can only be TRUE or FALSE (or 1 and...
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Ever since SQL Server 2005 introduced user-schema separation, schemas have received due importance. Most new designs isolate functionality within the same database via the use of schemas. With the growing use schemas, did you ever face a situation wherein you or one of the team members created a table...
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One of the reasons I enjoy working with Microsoft SQL Server because often I find that its behaviour is a classic case of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out). Jacob Sebastian ( blog ) always makes it a point to mention in his TechEd and Community Tech Days sessions that one must also treat SQL Server with...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post related to the tempdb where I attempted to answer the question – Is TempDB a copy of the model database? The post attracted a couple of follow-up comments (which I really appreciate, because it gives everyone a great deal to think about) and led me to a thought-filled...
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Based on popular demand from my colleagues and you, the kind reader, I am currently writing a series of posts on the SQL Server Profiler. Five parts have been published till date, and for your kind reference, here are the links to them: What is a SQL Trace? Permissions, space requirements and launching...
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Based on popular demand from my colleagues and you, the kind reader, I am currently writing a series of posts on the SQL Server Profiler. Four parts have been published till date, and for your kind reference, here are the links to them: What is a SQL Trace? Permissions, space requirements and launching...
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Based on popular demand from my colleagues and you, the kind reader, I am currently writing a series of posts on the SQL Server Profiler. Three parts have been published till date, and for your kind reference, here are the links to them: What is a SQL Trace? Permissions, space requirements and launching...
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Based on popular demand from my colleagues and you, the kind reader, I am currently writing a series of posts on the SQL Server Profiler. The first part was an introduction attempting to answer the question - What is a SQL Trace? Permissions, space requirements and launching the Profiler . The second...
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Based on popular demand from my colleagues and you, the kind reader, I am currently writing a series of posts on the SQL Server Profiler. You can read the first part on What is a SQL Trace? Permissions, space requirements and launching the Profiler . Today, we will attempt to answer the following questions...
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Microsoft SQL Server comes with a host of development and administrator features that warrant a separate IDE – the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). While the SSMS allows a developer or an administrator to write and debug T-SQL code and manage and maintain SQL Server instance(s), there is a requirement...
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A few months ago, I wrote about how one might end up with a Message #1701 error when attempting to execute an ALTER TABLE…ALTER COLUMN statement. You can refer the original post here . Vishal Gajjar ( blog ) recently wrote about the Table Designer component of SSMS. In his post, he draws attention to...
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