SQL Server 2017 introduces a set of useful functions like STRING_AGG(), STRING_SPLIT(), TRIM()… and many more. In this tip, I am going to discuss one of the built-in aggregate functions – “STRING_AGG()”. The function concatenates values from rows as one value with a separator, and the main advantage is it doesn’t add the separator at the […]
Who installed SQL Server?
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Recently, I was working with the team and got stuck up with SQL Server Installation information. We got an urgent requirement to patch the physical box from Windows team. As the server was not in production, so the server entry was missing. Since Windows team wanted to take action on it as soon as possible, […]
Change the name of master database files – SQL Server on Linux
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In my recent blog, I discussed about how to move master database to another location. One of the readers requested to blog about renaming the master database files. So, we are going to explore step by step process of renaming the files in this blog. Change the name of master database files Connect to SQL Server […]
How to Move Master Database to Another Location – SQL Server On Linux
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With the release of SQL Server 2017 CU4, you can use the mssql-conf utility to move the master database file to another location. By default, master database is located at the location /var/opt/mssql/data. Now, if you want to change the location of master database file to a different location, you can follow the below steps to do […]
Capture SQL Server Reported Errors using Extended Events
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In my introduction to Extended Events blog, I mentioned that the xEvent is my favorite toy for performance troubleshooting. This blog may make you to start playing with it. In this tip, I will be discussing how you can find what caused SQL Server to write error in the Errorlog file. Problem: One of the clients reported that […]