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Scenario The process of creating, building, and maintaining full-text search capabilities is quite a daunting task. During the installation of Full-Text Search for SQL Server 2000, one of the folders gets installed in a not-so-conspicuous location that could potentially be troublesome as the server gets busier. To get a good start on building and maintaining […]
Solution The delete command removes the rows from a table on the basis of the condition that we provide a WHERE clause. Truncate will actually remove all of the rows from a table, and there will be no data in the table after we run the truncate command.
Scenario There is a common practice in the DBA world to work on a daily basis with back-ups and restoring of databases on different servers with different configurations. In an ideal world you would have the same collation and the same compatibility level on all your machines but for cases when this doesn’t happen here’s […]
Sql Server Interview question #8 What is collation? Solution Collation refers to a set of rules that determines how data is sorted and compared. Character data is sorted using rules that define the correct character sequence with options for specifying case sensitivity, accent marks, Kana character types, and character width. Thanks for reading this […]
Scenario proposal After recently upgrading a SQL Server instance to SQL Server 2012 a few days ago, you noticed that your application is not functioning properly. You decided to roll back the upgrade by downgrading the SQL Server database engine to SQL Server 2008 R2. After the downgrade of the database engine, you are unable […]
Scenario proposal While looking through the new features in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 we found a potentially interesting one called Disabling Indexes, which can be used to disable indexes on a table or a view. Can you give us a detailed explanation of how we go about using this new feature along […]
Scenario proposal A task that you may be faced with as a DBA is the need to refresh a test or development database on a periodic basis. This may be a scheduled process or it may be an ad hoc process. One of the things that you need to do when restoring a database is […]
Scenario proposal When you install SQL Server the path for the installation is generally something such as the following: C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.2MSSQL. In this directory there are also folders for your DATA files and also your BACKUP files. Within SQL Server Management Studio you have the ability to change the default location for your […]
