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Continue reading →: SQL Won’t come up after Installing Service pack!!
Hello folks! In this blog post, I would like to share a strange experience which I’ve never experienced till today while Installing Service packs for SQL Server. Well, I’m in the process of Installing new SQL Server(2012) on Windows Server 2012. Installed RTM…Everything went well. Now I kicked off applying Service…
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Continue reading →: SQL Server 2014 RTM released!
SQL Server 2014, MSFT’s cloud first data platform, released to manufacturing today(18th of march 2014) and will be generally available on 1st of April 2014 as per the SQL Server blog. Alright, the wait is almost over and am waiting to get my hands dirty, exploring all the features 2014…
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Continue reading →: Importance of reviewing your SQL Server Error Logs.
Few weeks ago I posted a poll here asking for how often do you review your Error logs. As promised, here comes the follow up post:) Unfortunately, 45.45% out of 11 people said “Never and I’ll open Error log only If I want to investigate something” . IMHO, this is not a…
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Continue reading →: SQL Server Database Snapshots – Things to remember!
In this blog post, let’s see what SQL Server database Snapshots are and how they can be created and how to revert to a DB Snapshot and few important things to keep in mind before making use of them. Microsoft introduced database snapshots in SQL Server 2005 as an enterprise…
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Continue reading →: SQL Server Error Logs – My First Poll.
Hello folks…Thought of creating a poll for the first time 🙂 I hope I picked something which makes sense and…….this polling will be open for the next three days. I will try come up with a follow up blog post If I get at least 10 votes. (Am keeping the…
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