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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 7–New Feature – Delayed Durability (Part 1)
SQL Server 2014 is having a lot of useful feature and some are hidden as well. I was able to learn about “delayed durability” feature while preparing my session at GIDS. Since the session is over now,...
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 8 – New Feature – Delayed Durability (Part 2)
In part 1 of the post about delayed durability, we have learned the basics of delayed durability. In this part, lets see it in action. I must point out that this feature is also called “Lazy Commit”....
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 9 – New Feature – Resource Governor to control I/O...
Have you ever come across a situation where you want to re-index complete database and other queries are facing slowness because of IO bottleneck? In earlier version of SQL Server, resource governor...
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 10 – New Feature – Resource Governor to control...
Reading theory is important but doing practical in real life helps remembering a concept for longer time. In last post about resource governor, we have learned the basics. In this blog, we would see...
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 11 – New DMV – sys.dm_exec_query_profiles (Part 1)
How many time you have been asked to find out to know what is the exact piece in the query plan is being executed currently? or Imagine a situation where a query running for hours or query never...
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 12 – New DMV – sys.dm_exec_query_profiles (Part 2)
In my earlier post we have discussed about the use of the DMV. In this blog, we would see demo about the feature. In the last post we have learned that we must enable actual execution plan to get...
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 13 – New Feature – Managed Lock Priority (Part 1)
Imagine a situation where DBA wants to perform maintenance operations like online index rebuild [using ALTER INDEX…REBUILD (ONLINE=ON)] or SWITCH partition [using ALTER TABLE… SWITCH PARTITION] on a...
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 14 – New Feature – Managed Lock Priority (Part 2)
In last part Managed Lock Priority (Part 1) we have seen the reason of introducing such behavior. In this part, we would see some demo about this feature. I would try to cover as many demo as I can....
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 15 – New Feature – Managed Lock Priority (Part 3)
In earlier two blogs (Part 1 and Part 2) we have seen various new options added to support MLP in online Index rebuild using ALTER INDEX. Same holds true for ALTER TABLE … SWITCH PARTITON as well. In...
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SQL 2014 Learning Series # 16 – New Feature – Single Partition Online Index...
Till SQL Server 2012, if we want to rebuild a partition table online, the only option available was to rebuild all the partitions of the table. If we want to rebuild only one partition, the option was...
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Solution : Suspect Database – SQL Server detected a DTC/KTM in-doubt...
While testing application which uses distributed transaction, I caused a failure of SQL Server Database. When I performed failover I found that database didn’t recover and failed to come online. It was...
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Solution – SQL Server Backup Failing with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Recently someone posted on Facebook group about a problem. He informed that whenever the backups are taken in SQL Server 2014 instance, it’s failing with error as below. Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1,...
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AlwaysOn – How many databases can be added in Availability Group? Any hard...
This is one of the common question asked. This blog has list of resources which can be useful in getting answer. First lets look at books online. Prerequisites, Restrictions, and Recommendations for...
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SQL Cluster Setup Error – System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException...
My job revolves around troubleshooting and fixing the broken thing. Here is one of the situation which I ran into recently and was unable to find solution on internet. It my responsibility to provide...
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Solution : Suspect Database – SQL Server detected a DTC/KTM in-doubt...
While testing application which uses distributed transaction, I caused a failure of SQL Server Database. When I performed failover I found that database didn’t recover and failed to come online. It was...
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Solution – SQL Server Backup Failing with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Recently someone posted on Facebook group about a problem. He informed that whenever the backups are taken in SQL Server 2014 instance, it’s failing with error as below. Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1,...
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AlwaysOn – How many databases can be added in Availability Group? Any hard...
This is one of the common question asked. This blog has list of resources which can be useful in getting answer. First lets look at books online. Prerequisites, Restrictions, and Recommendations for...
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SQL Cluster Setup Error – System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException...
My job revolves around troubleshooting and fixing the broken thing. Here is one of the situation which I ran into recently and was unable to find solution on internet. It my responsibility to provide...
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