Month: November 2014

Index Pointers

Indexes  – Pointers to Consider Max index size – 16 columns or 900 bytes whichever comes first Page Size – 8 KB – 8192 Bytes  Storage Available = 8192 Bytes – 96 Bytes for non-data storage = 8096 bytes /

SQL Server – Simple Best Practices

SQL Server – Simple Best Practices SET NOCOUNT ON SET NOCOUNT ON prevents the sending of DONE_IN_PROC messages to the client for each statement.This setting SET NOCOUNT to ON can provide a significant performance boost, because network traffic is greatly

Show Database Size and Last access time

How do you find the last time a database was accessed and size? We had about 108 databases on one of our Test Servers and it was being used by multiple teams and we don’t have comprehensive list of what’s

Backup and Restore TimeStamps

Database  Restore History How old is the Database if restored from the Backup file : In lab environment , we always get the copy of production database and restore it. Have you ever wondered how old is the database in lab

Database Mail check

Database Mail check to ensure it is operational: USE msdb GO SELECT * FROM sysmail_allitems GO SELECT * FROM sysmail_sentitems GO SELECT * FROM sysmail_unsentitems GO SELECT * FROM dbo.sysmail_faileditems GO SELECT * FROM dbo.sysmail_mailitems GO SELECT * FROM dbo.sysmail_log

Temporary Tables Vs Table Variables

Temporary Tables Vs Table Variables Table Variables : No Transaction Log Overhead No Lock Overhead No Recompilations No Rollback Maintenance You can only have one Primary Key or UNIQUE Constraint. You can have only one INDEX Usually it doesn’t trigger

Hike List in PNW Area

Hike List from Pacific Northwest Collection of photos from Hiking Trips in Pacific Northwest Area. I have done several hikes in Pacific northwest region. Hopefully this information would be helpful for someone who likes to explore and enjoy pristine pacific

Useful Links and URLS

Useful Links and URLS Cassandra Calender: http://www.planetcassandra.org/Calendar Learn Ruby: Code Academy – http://www.codecademy.com/courses/ruby-beginner-en-d1Ylq/0/1?curriculum_id=5059f8619189a5000201fbcb Standford CS Courses: http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=63480b48-8819-4efd-8412-263f1a472f5a MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/   Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/   Java JDK Path: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home David Malan Page: http://cs.harvard.edu/malan/courses/ SQL Server: Nested Loops Explained http://blogs.msdn.com/b/craigfr/archive/2006/07/26/679319.aspx

NGINX Protect Domain through Password

NGINX Protect Domain through Password It’s very easy to place a simple htpasswd-based authentication system on a domain served by nginx. To do this, you’ll want your server block to look like this: server { listen 80; server_name domain.com; root

NGINX and APACHE URL Redirects

NGINX APACHE URL Redirects Redirect all the requests to https server { listen 80; server_name i90runner.com; rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent; } Redirect Specific Pages rewrite /humor /humor/humor.php; rewrite /events/search /Events/events_search.php; rewrite /events/summary /Events/events_summary.php; rewrite /photos /photos/index.php; rewrite /help /Technology/blog.php?ID=344; rewrite

Change HostName in Linux Machines

Change HostName in Linux Machines Edit  /etc/hostname , make the name change, save the file. You should also make the same changes in /etc/hosts  file Run sudo /etc/init.d/hostname restart or sudo service hostname restart /etc/hostname /etc/hosts sudo /etc/init.d/hostname restart sudo

Backup-Zip-Copy-Unzip-Restore-Notify SQL Server Databases

Backup-Zip-Copy-Unzip-Restore SQL Server Databases: I am sure we all try to bring databases from One Environment to Another Environment whether its to accomplish testing, debugging or maintaining the parity between production and lab. I used to spend little bit of time

SQL Server : Find SQL Server TCP Port and IP Address

SQL Server : Find SQL Server TCP Port and IP Address SELECT @@SERVERNAME AS ServerName , local_tcp_port,local_net_address FROM sys.dm_exec_connections WHERE session_id = @@SPID Results : ServerName local_tcp_port local_net_address DEVENV\2008R2 59663 192.168.63.223

SQL Server – Create and Parse Comma Seperated List

XML Approach: Reads : 2 Duration:5 ms Substring Approach: Reads : 16 Duration: 14 ms –declare a variable and populate it with a comma separated string DECLARE @SQLString VARCHAR(MAX) SET @SQLString = N’94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,

Removing Additional Data Files from TempDB

I had a need to remove TempDB DataFiles in one of our environments. When I ran the simple DBCC SHRINKFILE Command, I encountered following error. DBCC SHRINKFILE: Page 4:11283400 could not be moved because it is a work table page.

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