“sp_helptext“ – Useful command to view detail TIP #85

  It might be already known to you but I thought for sharing because I frequently use this command and it is very useful command. When someone wants to determine detail of a function or stored procedure he/she can use this useful command. The syntax is very simple. Just write sp_helptext Storedprocedure/ functionname For example …

Easy way to diagnose SQL Server “sp_Who2” TIP #84

  Why the SQL Server is running slow ? What are the processes running currently on SQL SERVER instance ? Many other like the above which might help us to understand our current SQL Server instance health can be answered by a simple command “sp_who2”. “sp_Who2”  is an Undocumented command. You can utilize this command …

How to configure memory in SQL SERVER ? TIP#83

  One of the good sentence I remember “When someone has teeth he/she is not having nuts and when someone has nuts he/she not having teeth”. Just joke a part. You understand what I mean to say here. If you have the resources then utilize it. One of the most most important aspect in performance …

How to Enable / Disable Xp_cmdShell in SQL SERVER? TIP #82

Friends, Sometimes it might be possible that you have to run dos command from SQL SERVER. In such situation you have to enable the xp_cmdShell option of  sql configuration. To enable this we can write following statement EXEC sp_configure ‘show advanced options’, 1;GORECONFIGURE;GOEXEC sp_configure ‘xp_cmdshell’, 1;GORECONFIGURE;GO Just wanted to share that it can be a …

Contained Database–A new feature in SQL SERVER 2012 TIP #81

While working on a project sometimes it happened that we need to shift the database from one server to another due to various reason (sometimes it is only money ). We are aware that this easy step take backup and restore another machine but glitch is what about the users which have access to the …

How to insert value in Identity column ? TIP #80

  Happy new year 2015 . Suppose you have a source table and one destination table (Which is exact replica of source table) and you want to copy all the rows of source table into destination table. Now the challenging part here is that there is an identity column and in source & destination table …

Change Data Capture (CDC)–An easy way to track data changes of a database–TIP #79

  In last TIP #78  we have discussed Change tracker (CT) which was introduced in SQL SERVER 2008. CT feature only tracks which row is changes means on which row Insert/update/delete operation is performed but it does not track what exact value is changed. If we want an audit of database means whatever changes occurred …