Category: General

  • Variable and Assignment enhancements

    Variable and assignment enhancements are small plus points in SQL Server 2008. We have around 4 things to discuss under this and they are below. All of these are mostly helpful to developers. Declare Statement Compound Assignment Operators Row Constructors Table Valued Parameter (TVP) Lets discuss on this titles one by one

  • Systray Utility to check SQL Server Service

    I have developed this utility to monitor the instances of SQL Server running in a machine (i.e only standalone and not remote machines) and to send failure mail alerts upon service status. When I tried this type of systray utility in internet I could find only utilities that are monitoring the service and not sending…

  • Creating user defined System Objects in SQL Server

    You can create an object in SQL Server and convert it to a system object just by marking the object as given below. By doing so you will be able to call the procedure from any db context

  • Configuring Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008

    I have planned to configure SQL Server 2008 clustering on Windows Server 2008 Clustering. To do this, first I need to configure Windows Server Clustering. Now a days DBA’s are not only working on RBMS platform, they should also have sufficient knowledge in their operating system on which their RDBMS is running. As a DBA…

  • Resource Database

    In this article we are going to take a look at the 5th system databases available right from SQL Server 2005. As everyone know till SQL Server 2000 there are four system database is available and they are master, model, msdb and tempdb databases. From SQL Server 2005 Microsoft has introduced a new system database…