Command Prompt connectivity –U option

When you try to connect to sql server using isql/osql or sqlcmd there are two authentication you can use windows...

High Availability 9's

This is very important to understand what is high availability 9's, This is a measurement of high availability  where you can tell...

Desktop Edition Sql server 2000 MSDE Install upgrade

for sql server 2000 (I know its old) desktop edition does not includes any GUI. so installation of desktop edition...

Dynamic Add/Remove file in Mirroring/Logshipping

Yesterday we were having discussion on high availability feature Mirroring and Log shipping with my colleagues (Amol & Alankar) on whether...

Find Login in Active Directory

Find Login in AD

Many times we require to know if particular login is a part of ad user group. Or...

When Date Modified changes for Sql mdf/ldf files

*This is related to physical file size of a MDF or LDF file not internal allocation.
One of our user asked...

Good Bye 2011

Good Bye 2011

Hey there, this year is going to an end and just want to recall what all happened this...

Basics QA on Extended Event

Basics QA on Extended Event

 
 
I am learning Extended Event so this is my first blog on extended event, There is...

Suspect Database

Suspect database generally caused by internal IO issue, and the best way to resolve it to ask hardware person to...

spid in Killed/Rollback cannot kill

We come across a situation where we have to kill one spid which was running for quite some time, so...