Question: How to Force a Parallel Execution Plan for a Query?
SQL SERVER – Be Careful with Logon Triggers – Don’t use Host_Name
Before you read further, let me warn you that Logon triggers are potentially evil and might also end up locking everyone out of the instance. Be careful! Don’t just copy paste the code and create the trigger, you might end up in downtime to fix the issue.
Recently, one of my blog readers sent an email to me asking a quick suggestion. He informed me that he is using a LOGON trigger to control the access to the server. Here is the code for the trigger.
SQLPASS Pre-Con: 21 Essential Scripts: Jump-Start Performance Tuning for Accidental DBAs
If you are traveling to SQL PASS, Seattle this year, you do not want to miss out on my pre-con:Â 21 Essential Scripts: Jump-Start Performance Tuning for Accidental DBAs. This session is going to be amazing fun and very unique. It is full day demo-oriented learning session.
What is SQL Server Launchpad Service? – Interview Question of the Week #168
Question:Â What is SQL Server Launchpad Service?
SQL SERVER – Identifying Deprecated SQL Server Features with Extended Events
In this blog post with the help of Extended Events, we will learn how to identify all the deprecated SQL Server Features. This feature can be very much handy when we are changing the compatibility of SQL Server and we want to check what are all the deprecated SQL Server features we are still using in our active code.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Arithmetic Overflow Error in Object Execution Statistics Report in Management Studio
Many times, there are unforeseen conditions and few developers can’t predict which writing the code of a product. This is the reason we have bugs in the products and we all have job to do. One of my clients was not able to run one of the inbuilt reports which come with SQL Server Management Studio. The report name was Object Execution Statistics. As per them, this report was running fine until last week and it had suddenly stopped working. They wanted some idea this as it was not a show stopper for them. When they launch the report, they see below error
SQL SERVER – Upgrade Error – ALTER DATABASE Statement Not Allowed Within Multi-statement Transaction
Most of the time applying service pack for SQL Server is a child’s play. Double click on exe, keep hitting next, next and finally press update. But when it fails, you would need an expert to fix the issue. Recently, one of my clients faced a problem while installing SQL Server 2014 Sp2. The Service Pack error failed at the final stage. And now the SQL Server services were not starting. This issue can have various variations where SQL Services doesn’t start after patching. Few on my earlier blogs on the same topic are listed below. Let us learn about ALTER DATABASE Statement Not Allowed Within Multi-statement Transaction.