checking valid backup
Hi,What are the ways to check backup is valid or not other than restore verifyonly.
View Articlecritical issues
Hi,As I'm facing interviews everyone asking critical issues in career as a sqldba. Can anyone please provide critical issues that you faced in your career.
View ArticleServer Disk I/O issue?
I have a server 2008 with 24gb of RAM. On it, there are 5 separate instances; some SQL2008 and some SQL2012.In my Oracle databases that are in Windows environment, I normally reserve 30% (about 7gb) of...
View ArticleLogin failed for user 'IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool' on SQL Express 2012
I am new to both ASP.NET and SQL Server.I have IIS8 installed on my Windows 8 PC, together with SQL Server Express 2012. Given my ignorance, I have just set everything up using default values.I have a...
View Articlequery execution
Hi,When a query is executed what happens internally? How it give results?
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Hi,How to understand execution plan? What are the things need to observe in output ?
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Microsoft TechNet Wiki SQL Server Guru - Winners for January!!
The results for January's TechNet Guru competition were posted!http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/02/16/technet-guru-awards-january-2014.aspxPost your FEBRUARY contributions...
View ArticleConversion failed when converting the varchar value to data type int.
when i execute my store procedure:PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetEmailAdd_Sp] @emplid int AS BEGIN Declare @emplEmail varchar(50) -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with...
View ArticleIssues with old calendar items after migration from SBS2008R1 to Windows...
Hello,After migrating a customer from Windows Small Business Server 2008 R1 to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (DC) and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 & Exchange 2013 there are a few issue regarding...
View ArticleCalculating YTD from store procedure
I am trying to calculate YTD (Year to date) salary amountYTD: "YTD" means Year-To-Date. It is the period starting January 1 of the current year until the last day of the pay cycle. Current means what...
View ArticleHow to insert data from one table to another with extra column data using...
Table 1 and Table 2 having the same same Column Name and Data Type with excess of one more column in Table 2 as CurDateTime which contains GETDATE()ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[trg_Name] on [dbo].[Table1]...
View ArticleSQL server creates large transaction Dump file (LDMP)
SQL server 2005 creates large dump file when a particular scheduled job runs. The dump file size grows up to 10 GB. Please advise, how should I move forward to stop the creation of large dump file and...
View ArticleTable Index
I am designing a database for the storage of Faculty Information. The primary purpose is for storing contact information that will be exported to an automated call system for contacting faculty about...
View ArticleRestoring a database which has snapshot created
Hello everyone..I am trying to restore a database which has a snapshot. It is not allowing me to do so.can we restore a backup on a database which has a snapshot?-- Thanks and Regards Srikar Reddy...
View ArticleChanging A Value Using If Statement in SQL Query
Hello, I have a very rudimentary question that I'm stuck on. I have a query that returns one of 3 different integers. I want to have each integer translate to a string value depending on the number...
View Articlegetting and calculating values on fly
I am trying to calculate YTD (Year to date) salary amountYTD: "YTD" means Year-To-Date. It is the period starting January 1 of the current year until the last day of the pay cycle. Current means what...
View Articlequery to return data from three tables
Hi All,I have three tablestable1 ID value11 abctable2ID link_ID ref_type object_ID1 ID of table1(1) hyperlink 1212 ID of table2...
View ArticleSelect first record value from each group (where group is from multiple column)
Hello,I have one table for data exchange and I have structureSKU, Year, Month, Week, Day, Qtycolumn Qty can be sales, stock and so.Now I need to return for example stock at the begining of the year for...
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