SQL-Saturday #116 – Question of the day: When does a GRANT overrides a DENY in SQL Server?

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SQLSaturday #116 – Bangalore

WoW!! What a great day it was to learn and connect with SQL guru’s and like minded folks who carry same passion for SQL server as I do. It’s quite an honor to meet and listen @blakhani, @pinaldave, @banerjeeamit, @vinodk_sql, @kashyapa , Rick @Joes2Pros……You guys are truly inspirational
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Identify queries that consume a large amount of log space in SQL Server

One of regular issues DBA’s get are about the T-log growth. Situations, wherein one “bad”  or “poorly-designed” query can eat up entire T-log space, bring the free space to zero and then bring your application down. The cause and remedy of most these issue is discussed in this KB # 317375(I’m  big fan on Microsoft KB’s).

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What is a columnstore index?

Upcoming SQL Product, introduces a new data warehouse query acceleration feature based on a new type of index called columnstore. Before we move any further exploring this new feature, I want to take time to explain the basics behind a columnstore index and how different is it from a traditional index (rowstore).

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Hello world….once again

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func main() {
    fmt.Println("hello world (^-^*)/")
}

This is continuation to my SQL Server blog on MSDN. With this blog post, I intend to help fellow database engineers community using PostgreSQL / SQL Server as a Database Platform, with occasional other stuff thrown in related to other RDBMS platforms and their respective integration issues. Thanks to my wife who’d been pestering me to blog for a year or so.

I’ve spent more than a decade working on various different RDBMS platforms including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL. My current focus area is PostgreSQL and it’s implementation in a large enterprise landscape overcoming challenges of scale, manageability and automation.

Thanks for your time reading and I hope all my effort will help (or at least entertain) you at many levels. I would really appreciate if you could let me know what you think about it, good or bad. I always appreciate feedback 🙂

Sincere Thanks!

Varun