There are many after market tools available to monitor health of SQL Server. But with help of built-in tools you…
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Send emails using Database Mail … from SQL Server
Back in Pre SQL Server 2005 editions of SQL Server there was nice feature called SQL Mail which basically allowed…
Policy Based Management in SQL Server
This great feature was introduced in SQL Server 2008 and since then it has been considered as one of “standard”…
Database Snapshots … The Good, Bad and Ugly
In SQL Server 2005 MSFT introduced very new feature … Database Snapshots … which is basically a read-only view of…
RAISERROR with TRY … CATCH block
RAISERROR is one of the most efficient method to raise user created exception based on various situations. And TRY CATCH…
Importing Fixed Position file into SQL Server
For any DBMS system (I know that it sounds redundant) data can come into variety of forms and formats ..…
Exporting data from SQL Server to Fixed Position Flat file
Just as usual, this post is kind of “Bi-product” of my attempt to create a demo for another post in…