For SQL Server 2017 RTM, the fourth cumulative update was released on 20th February, and it is available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. It brought a couple of significant improvements like; Set new errorlogfile location Change the location of master database file on existing SQL installation Change the name of master database files […]
New Built-in Function STRING_AGG() – SQL Server 2017
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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 […]
Extended Event Packages
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I continue blogging on extended events. Today, I will discuss about the top level containers (Package) that gives access to one or more smaller items inside of extended Events Extended Event Packages Definition In the Extended Events Engine, Packages are registered inside the modules and contain the information about what Extended Events objects the module […]
Mapping SQL Trace to Extended Events
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Since I started actively participating in SQL community, I found it is very common that people will approach to seek help on their SQL related issues. I do love to help people because it is always a win and win situation for both of us. Recently, I had a phone conversation with one of the […]
Reset SA password on SQL Server on Linux
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This article is about how to proceed when you forgot the password of your SQL Server “sa” account, Password was entered wrong many times then “sa” account got locked, or someone wants to reset the password without using SQL Server management studio (GUI). The mssql-conf is a configuration tool that installs with SQL Server on Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, […]
How to Get Estimated Completion Time of SQL Server Database Backup OR Restore
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“How much time SQL Server is going to take to complete the database Backup or Restore” – This is one of the very common questions DBAs face in day to day life when they are performing database refresh activity, database migration activity, or any adhoc activity where DBA may want to have a DB backup […]