Issue – How to create ODBC connection from text file. Resolution – Step 1 – Create the text file and ensure extension is enabled. Step 2 – If you don’t know how to enable extension. select your file ( in my case odbc ) and click on view on Top Navigation bar and select File name… Read More How to create ODBC connection from text file.

Today, I was working on demo where I wanted to have test dataset for Retail db and after some googing I found MS has it’s own database and here are details – The Contoso BI Demo dataset is used to demonstrate DW/BI functionalities across the entire Microsoft Office product family. This dataset includes C-level, sales/marketing,… Read More Microsoft Contoso BI Demo Dataset for Retail Industry

These two articles were published my Microsoft SQL team and it will help you to create Performance dashboard and performance baseline report. These reports are really cool and will eliminate your performance monitoring need. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sql_server_team/sql-server-performance-dashboard-reports-unleashed-for-enterprise-monitoring/  https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sql_server_team/sql-server-performance-baselining-reports-unleashed-for-enterprise-monitoring/#comment-2705

I got call from one of my client when I was about to leave office and they said their missing critical databases is not coming into multi_user mode. I was like it’s going to be very easy to resolve. I tried to run Alter database <dbname> with multi_user and got below error. Msg 1205, Level… Read More Alter database set multi_user not working

Issue – While Installing SQL Server 2012 on windows 2012 server I have received below error, which indicate .Net 3.5 is not installed on this machine. In windows server 2012 .Net 3.5 do not install by default as it’s come with .Net 4.5. Let’s learn how to install .Net 3.5 on windows 2012 box. Go… Read More NetFx3 error while installing SQL Server 2012

Problem – I have found VLF size of my database abc is very huge and when i have tried to shrink the file i have received below error – Could not locate file ‘xy_abc_Log’ for database ‘abc’ in sys.database_files. Resolution – While my investigation I have found logical fine name under sys.master_files is different as compare… Read More Could not locate file ‘xy_abc_Log’ for database ‘abc’ in sys.database_files.