In previous post I explained basics of ISOLATION levels in general. This post is a sort of demo of isolation levels in SQL Server. In SQL Server, Isolation property can be configured using “SET ISOLATION” command. This command can be used to set isolation at any given transaction. SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED GO
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Isolation levels in SQL Server … part I
Just like any reliable transaction system, SQL Server supports ACID properties. If you have never heard of ACID properties before than it is actually set of four properties Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability. These set of properties makes sure that what ever transaction we do in SQL Server (or any DBMS) and database performs consistently
WordPress and Database Connection Error …
This week, I changed my WP Blog password and DB Password for that blog as well. And I did it using control panel provided by my hosting service provider. It went all well without any sort of error or so. But just today when I was trying to access my blog for some past reference,
Oracle 11g R2 and Windows 7 … dealing with Enterprise Manager Troubles
So, this weekend I thought to refresh my experience with Oracle. And in that attempt, I decided to install latest of Oracle DBMS family, Oracle 11g. Now, it’s been a while since I used oracle, it was version 10g. And they have been significantly improved in version 11g, so I wanted to try them. But
SQL Server Views … to make sure others “view” what you want them to view !!!
In essence, SQL Server view can be considered as a “Virtual Table”. When we create a view, user “feel” no difference between it and a table. And we can query it exactly same way as we query any other table. View can be really handy when we are using some super complex query to get
Database Normalization … taming the wild horse
For any application to use database and hence data effectively it is very important that data is organized properly. The most common problem for database is redundancy in data. If table has highly redundant data, that means for every operation (like insert, update or delete) it takes more effort to find correct record. And it
Introduction to Indexing …. and SQL Server
Indexing in simple term can be explained as a pointer to some specific information. It works nearly same as indexes at end of book, just fine the keyword you are looking for at index and get the page number where it is located (when I was studying, mostly sometimes I thought that best way to