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• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : 4214 BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database

  - by pinaldave

  I recently got following email from one of the reader. Hi Pinal, Even thought my database is in full recovery mode when I try to take log backup I am getting following error. BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) How to fix it? Thanks, [name and email removed as requested] Solution /…

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• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution 2

  - by pinaldave

  Earlier I had ran puzzle where I asked question regarding size of index table for each index in database over here SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table – A Puzzle to Find Index Size for Each Index on Table. I had received good amount answers and I had blogged about that here SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution. As a comment to…

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• SQL SERVER – Get Latest SQL Query for Sessions – DMV

  - by pinaldave

  In recent SQL Training I was asked, how can one figure out what was the last SQL Statement executed in sessions. The query for this is very simple. It uses two DMVs and created following quick script for the same. SELECT session_id, TEXT FROM sys.dm_exec_connections CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(most_recent_sql_handle) AS ST While…

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• SQLAuthority News – Storage and SQL Server Capacity Planning and configuration – SharePoint Server 2

  - by pinaldave

  Just a day ago, I was asked how do you plan SQL Server Storage Capacity. Here is the excellent article published by Microsoft regarding SQL Server capacity planning for SharePoint 2010. This article touches all the vital areas of this subject. Here are the bullet points for the same. Gather storage and SQL Server space and I/O…

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• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Take Database Offline – Take Database Online

  - by pinaldave

  Blog reader Joyesh Mitra recently left a comment to one of my very old posts about SQL SERVER – 2005 Take Off Line or Detach Database, which I have written focusing on taking the database offline. However, I did not include how to bring the offline database to online in that post. The reason I did not write it was that I was…

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• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 Hosted Trial

  - by pinaldave

  This is a bit old news but for me but it will new for many of you know. SQLPASS, Dell, Microsoft and MaximumASP has come together and build hosted environment for free to all of us to use and experiment with. Register now to try out up to seven labs: SQL Server 2008 R2 – Multi Server Management SQL Server 2008 R2 –…

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• SQLAuthority News – List of Master Data Services White Paper

  - by pinaldave

  Since my TechEd India 2010 presentation I am very excited with SQL Server 2010 MDS. I just come across very interesting white paper on Microsoft site related to this subject. Here is the list of the same and location where you can download them. They are all written by Top Experts at Microsoft. Master Data…

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• SQL SERVER – SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 2

  - by pinaldave

  SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 has been already released earlier. I suggest that all of you who are running SQL Server 2008 I suggest you updated to SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2. Download SQL Server 2008 – Service Pack 2 from here. Please note, this is not SQL Server 2008 R2 but it is SQL Server 2008 –…

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• SQL SERVER – A Quick Note on DB_ID() and DB_NAME() – Get Current Database ID – Get Current Database Name

  - by pinaldave

  Quite often a simple things makes experienced DBA to look for simple thing. Here are few things which I used to get confused couple of years ago. Now I know it well and have no issue but recently I see one of the DBA getting confused when looking at the DBID from one of the DMV and not able to related…

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• SQLAuthority News – DotNET Challenge of Sorting Generic List

  - by pinaldave

  This is a quick announcement of .NET challenge posted by Nupur Dave. She has asked very interesting question. If you are interested in learning .NET and winning iPAD by Red-Gate. I strongly suggest that all of you should attempt the quiz. Here is the question: How to insert an item in sorted generic…

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• SQL SERVER – DATE and TIME in SQL Server 2008

  - by pinaldave

  I was thinking about DATE and TIME datatypes in SQL Server 2008. I earlier wrote about the about best practices of the same. Recently I had written one of the script written for SQL Server 2008 had to run on SQL Server 2005 (don’t ask me why!), I had to convert the DATE and TIME datatypes to…

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• SQL SERVER – Check the Isolation Level with DBCC useroptions

  - by pinaldave

  In recent consultancy project coordinator asked me – “can you tell me what is the isolation level for this database?” I have worked with different isolation levels but have not ever queried database for the same. I quickly looked up bookonline and found out the DBCC command which can give me…

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• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Challenge – Error While Converting Money to Decimal

  - by pinaldave

  Earlier I wrote SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint and I did receive some good comments. Here is another question to tease your mind. Run following script and you will see that it will thrown an error. DECLARE @mymoney MONEY; SET @mymoney = 12345.67; SELECT…

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• SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME

  - by pinaldave

  Sometime something so simple skips our mind. I never knew the difference between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME. I just ran simple query as following and realized the difference. SELECT GETDATE() fn_GetDate, SYSDATETIME() fn_SysDateTime In case of GETDATE the precision is till…

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• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Why does RIGHT JOIN Exists

  - by pinaldave

  I had interesting conversation with the attendees of the my SQL Server Performance Tuning course. I was asked if LEFT JOIN can do the same task as RIGHT JOIN by reserving the order of the tables in join, why does RIGHT JOIN exists? The definitions are as following: Left…

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• SQLAuthority News – Uncut and Unedited Video Interview of Pinal Dave

  - by pinaldave

  Earlier this year Lohith (@kashyapa) from Bangalore took my ‘Uncut and Unedited’ video interview. It was really fun to answer his questions as it was very different from regular interview. He asked few personal details few technical details and made me show few secrets.…

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• SQL SERVER – What is Denali?

  - by pinaldave

  I see following question quite common on Twitter or in my email box. “What is Denali?” Denali is code name of SQL Server 2011. Here is the list of the code name of other versions of SQL Server. In 1988, Microsoft released its first version of SQL Server. It was…

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• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: File cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for more details

  - by pinaldave

  Yesterday I formatted my computer and did fresh install as it was due from long time. After the fresh install when I tried to install Semantic Search application using powershell, I was stopped by following error. File cannot be loaded because the execution of…

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• SQL SERVER – Find Largest Supported DML Operation – Question to You

  - by pinaldave

  SQL Server is very big and it is not possible to know everything in SQL Server but we all keep learning. Recently I was going over the best practices of transactions log and I come across following statement. The log size must be at least twice the size of…

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• SQL SERVER – Find Most Active Database in SQL Server – DMV dm_io_virtual_file_stats

  - by pinaldave

  Few days ago, I wrote about SQL SERVER – Find Current Location of Data and Log File of All the Database. There was very interesting conversation in comments by blog readers. Blog reader and SQL Expert Sreedhar has very interesting DMV presented which lists…

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• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Complete Downloadable List – Day 0 of 31

  - by pinaldave

  This blog post is running list of the blog posts in the series of Interview Questions and Answers. At the end of the 31st day of the month, a FREE PDF will be posted here which can be downloadable for offline review. Please scroll below to see latest post…

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• SQL SERVER – Convert IN to EXISTS – Performance Talk

  - by pinaldave

  In recent training one of the attendee asked if I can show simple method to convert IN clause to EXISTS clause. Here is the simple example. USE AdventureWorks GO -- use of = SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee E WHERE E.EmployeeID =…

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• SQLAuthority News – Blog Stats Revealed

  - by pinaldave

  I often receive praises, questions, suggestions and skeptical emails regarding my blog stats. Let me put everything aside and open up my stats page for all. I use wordpress.com and stats are maintained by them. Every month, I will put the blog stats on…

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• SQLAuthority News – Free Download – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM – Express with Management Tools

  - by pinaldave

  This blog post is in response to several inquiry about Free Download of SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM. Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2008 R2 as RTM (Release To Manufacture). Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Express is a powerful and reliable data …

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• SQL SERVER – DBA or DBD? – Database Administrator or Database Developer

  - by pinaldave

  Earlier this month, I had poll on this blog where I asked question – Are you a Database Administrator or Database Developer? The word DBA (Database Administrator) is very common but DBD (Database Developer) is not common at all. This made me…

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