Vidhya Sagar – Blog

I was discussing with one of my colleague and during the discussion he told me that he is not able to view the list of members available in a AD group since he don’t have permission on AD forest. Normally to retrieve this he will sent the request to the AD team and they will be verifying or sending him the list. I informed him that we have an alternate (happy news to him) to use xp_logininfo SQL extended stored procedure to retrieve the list, he has used it and got the desired result. I then thought of putting it in blog since in most of the big companies DBA’s will be limited to the permission so s\he need to check with the respective team to retrieve the settings. This actually needed when an AD group is added to SQL with necessary permission and when a particular user belongs to that group is not able to access SQL, you need to cross verify the AD group members list, so at that time you can utilize this procedure. Read more…

Vidhya Sagar Security ad group list, Security, xp_logininfo

This is a quick post to install or enable .Net 3.5 on windows 7. Last couple of weeks I’m seeing more questions on installing SQL Server 2008 in windows 7 and the users are unable to install SQL Server 2008 pre-requisite (.Net 3.5 ). To Install SQL Server 2008, windows installer 4.5 & .Net 3.5 is required. Windows installer 4.5 is installed and enabled by default, .Net 3.5 is included in windows features, so you can directly go there and turn on .Net 3.5, windows 7 will automatically install this. To turn on .Net 3.5  in Windows 7 just follow the steps below

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Vidhya Sagar SQL Server 2008, Troubleshoot .Net, SQL Installation, SQL Server 2008, Troubleshoot

SQL Server joins are required to retrieve data from one or more tables to get a single result set. Joins are needed when Normalization enforced in design. When you normalize the data you be reducing redundancy in data by placing data in different tables and also you will be creating relationship between the tables. With the help of these relationship you will be retrieving the data using joins efficiently.

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Vidhya Sagar General, T-SQL join, joins, select

In my previous article we have discussed about Basic slipstream setup, now I’m going to write a article on Merged Drop slipstream setup. In this method you will be merging the service pack with the base setup prior to the installation there by altering the source or base setup files. The merged setup package can be reused multiple times and you can burn it in DVD or copy it to a network share. However the main thing is that you need to TEST this setup package before promoting it as the core setup or live setup copy.

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Vidhya Sagar SQL Server 2008 slipstream, sql setup

In my previous article I’ve posted about slipstream and we have discussed about it’s methods. In this article I’m going to write about creating basic slipstream setup in SQL Server 2008. In this method you will be merging the service pack with the base setup at the time of installation. This method is very simple and straight forward. The merged setup package cannot be reused and it’s valid only for that particular (single) installation.

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Vidhya Sagar SQL Server 2008 setup, slipstream, sql setup