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How to create a large database in seconds - SQL Server 2016 - Perform Volume...
In most cases, we do not set the database file large, initial size is always less than 1GB, unless a decision is taken to make it suitable for next few months. If the database has to be created with a...
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How to check tables and stored procedures for in-memory migration
SQL Server introduced In-memory optimized tables with 2014 and it has been enhanced with SQL Server 2016. This improves the performance significantly and it is not that difficult to implement too. If...
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SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #042 - Identity property
Let's talk about an important property we always use; Identity property. This property has been used for generating Ids automatically, and most of the cases, this has been used as the surrogate key....
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Master Nodes, NameNode, Slave nodes, DataNode - understanding Hadoop cluster...
Everyone knows about Hadoop and everyone knows that it is mainly used for Big Data processing, or distributed processing. However, terms used with its components sometime make us confused,...
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SQL Server Backup to URL
Although this was introduced with SQL Server 2012, as per my experience, the usage of it is very low because it is unknown to many or do not use this facility to have a good backup strategy. When...
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A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file Backup to URL received an exception
My previous post discussed SQL Server Backup to URL, this is an error related to it.A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file...
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SQL Server On-Premise Database files maintained in Azure
This is not about databases completely maintained in cloud, this is about databases created and maintain on-premises but data and log files are maintained in Microsoft Cloud: Azure. Microsoft Windows...
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Creating SSIS packages for 2016, 2014 or 2012
Do you know that you can create SSIS packages now targeting the version to be run? Yes, it is possible with SQL Server Data Tools that has been release for SQL Server 2016. This works with Visual...
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SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #043 - Semicolon
Let's talk about some practices we follow when writing codes. You may have noticed that some use semicolon at the end of the statement. Some do not use it at all. So the question is; What is the...
View ArticleDROP IF EXISTS- SQL Server 2016 TSQL Enhancements
Though there are couple of additions with SQL Server 2016 on TSQL, had no chance to test them and see. While I was going through the list, the one I found, which is simple but very useful is, DROP IF...
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SQLSaturday Sri Lanka
We are organizing it for the second time............ Visit: http://sqlsaturday.com/535
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Truncating Partitions - SQL Server 2016 TSQL Enhancements
For a speedy delete or cleaning the table and resetting some of the properties of the table, we use TRUNCATE TABLE statement. This was really useful specifically with large data table because it saves...
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SQL Server SERVERPROPERTY - SQL Server 2016 TSQL Enhancements
SQL Server SERVERPROPERTY function was introduced with SQL Server 2008 and it was very useful for getting property information about the server instance. With SQL Server 2016, few new properties have...
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Creating HDInsight Hadoop Cluster using SSIS and processing unstructured data...
A fully-fledged Business Intelligence system never ignore unstructured data. The reason is, you can never get the true insight without considering, consuming and processing all types of data available...
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SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #044 - Reporting Services
Let's talk about something related to Reporting Services. You are asked to install and configure Reporting Services in one of the servers given. It is a new server, no instances of SQL Server has been...
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Creating HDInsight Hadoop Cluster using SSIS and processing unstructured data...
With my previous post Creating HDInsight Hadoop Cluster using SSIS and processing unstructured data using Hive Task - Azure Feature Pack - Part I, I discussed how to prepare the environment for...
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SQL Server SESSION_CONTEXT function - SQL Server 2016 Enhancements
If you are a web developer and have worked with Classic ASP or ASP.Net, then you know that how important it is for maintaining Session Variables for keeping various values throughout the session....
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SET ROWCOUNT overrides TOP?
While I was going through an implemented set of codes, I noticed that ROWCOUNT is heavily used (of course, it is an old implementations) and not only that, TOP is with newly added codes. There is an...
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Browsing internet inside SQL Server Management Studio
How often you google or bing on technical issues while developing modules with SQL Server? For me, it is quite often as I always do searches on codes I write. Now the question is, do you go out from...
View ArticleSQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #045 - Stored Procedure or Function
A question related to Stored Procedure is very common during an interview and many get stuck with it when it has to be discussed in details. What everyone thinks is, Stored Procedure is a pre-compiled...
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