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  • What happens when permission is revoked in middle of work?

    This is one of the question asked by my friend and it seems very simple. I had a discussion with him and said that whatever the transaction it has started it will succeeded, however what I told him is not correct. I told him I’ll test it out and the answer which I gave it…

  • Troubleshoot backup restore issues with trace flag 3004

    I faced an issue during restoration of very large db in our development database server. Issue is restoration takes very long time even though we had latest hardware and recent version of SQL Server (it’s SQL 2008 Ent. Ed). So to troubleshoot it I have used the trace flag 3004 which print all internal things…

  • How Much Memory is Needed Taken for My Database Backup

    In this article I will try and cover the concepts in understanding the amount of memory or buffers required for completing a database backup. I would be using a couple of trace flags to get that detail and further discuss two of the parameters MAXTRANSFERSIZE and BUFFERCOUNT in the BACKUP DATABASE TSQL syntax which will…

  • DBCC CHECKDB & READ ONLY DATABASES

    DBCC CHECKDB & READ ONLY DATABASES: Can you run a checkdb command on Read-only databases? If yes, does this get logged into boot page of the database? If checkdb finds an error can it fix on a read-only database? These were some of the questions running through my mind as I manage some read-only databases…

  • New SSMS GUI Changes in SQL Server 2011 (Denali)

    Im just writing this article to provide you the new changes to SSMS GUI available in SQL Server 2011 aka Denali. This article is not more into techie however it will just visualize you the changes made to SSMS GUI in .SQL 2011 Ill update this article whenever I see a new change in SSMS…