Daniel Farina

Daniel Farina was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Self-educated, since childhood he showed a passion for learning. He studied at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Daniel started working as a programmer at a young age. Over the years he specialized in databases, particularly SQL Server and Oracle. Now with 30 years of age, his work experience includes working with various technologies like VB, C, .NET, web development, Windows and Linux systems. He likes to read about science, psychology, philosophy and many other things. In his spare time, he trains powerlifting aiming to compete.

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Category	Tip Title
Backup	SQL Server Backup Encryption
Common Runtime Language	How to Enable SQL Server CLR Integration using T-SQL
Common Runtime Language	SQL Server CLR Introduction
Common Runtime Language	SQL Server CLR Scalar Functions
Common Runtime Language	SQL Server CLR Stored Procedure Development
Common Runtime Language	SQL Server CLR Table Valued Function
Data Types	Comparison of the VARCHAR(max) and VARCHAR(n) SQL Server Data Types
Data Types	Overview of SQL Server sql_variant Data Type
Database Administration	Deciding Between Editions of SQL Server for Production
Database Administration	Execute SQL Server Script Files with the sqlcmd Utility
Database Administration	How to Attach a SQL Server Database without a Transaction Log and with Open Transactions
Database Administration	How to stop and start SQL Server services
Database Administration	Introduction to SQL Server's sqlcmd utility
Database Administration	Options to Move a Big SQL Server Database to a New Drive with Minimal Downtime
Database Administration	Recover a SQL Server database prior to database changes
Database Administration	SQL Server scripts to use with sqlcmd
Database Administration	sqlcmd User Variables and Variable Precedence Examples
Database Administration	Understanding SQL Server Schedulers, Workers and Tasks
Database Administration	Using SQL Server sqlcmd scripting variables
Database Configurations	Check SQL Server Instant File Initialization for all Servers
Database Console Commands DBCCs	How To Interpret SQL Server DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS Output
Disaster Recovery	How to Fix a Corrupt MSDB SQL Server Database
Dynamic Management Views and Functions	New SQL Server 2014 Dynamic Management Views
Dynamic Management Views and Functions	SQL Server 2014 Real Time Query Monitoring
Express Edition	Deciding to use SQL Server 2017 Express Edition
Express Edition	Installing SQL Server 2017 Express
Express Edition	Introduction to SQL Server Express User Instances
Express Edition	SQL Server Express Versions
Fragmentation and Index Maintenance	Solving SQL Server Database Physical File Fragmentation
Functions User Defined UDF	Auto Generate Create Table Script Based on SQL Server Query
In Memory OLTP	Debugging Natively-Compiled Stored Procedures Statements
In Memory OLTP	Determine BUCKET_COUNT for Hash Indexes for SQL Server Memory Optimized Tables
In Memory OLTP	Guidelines for Using Natively-Compiled Stored Procedures in SSIS Packages
In Memory OLTP	Migrate to Natively Compiled SQL Server Stored Procedures for Hekaton
In Memory OLTP	Monitor Memory Consumption for SQL Server Memory Optimized Tables
In Memory OLTP	Overcoming storage speed limitations with Memory-Optimized Tables for SQL Server
In Memory OLTP	Setup a Memory Quota for SQL Server Memory Optimized Databases
In Memory OLTP	Understanding SQL Server Memory-Optimized Tables Hash Indexes
In Memory OLTP	Updating statistics for Memory-Optimized tables in SQL Server
In Memory OLTP	Workaround for lack of support for constraints on SQL Server Memory-Optimized Tables
Install and Uninstall	SQL Server Installation Best Practices
Integration Services Control Flow Transformations	Getting File Properties using SQL Server Integration Services Add-In
Integration Services Data Flow Transformations	Export SQL Server Data with Integration Services to a Mainframe
Integration Services Data Flow Transformations	Importing Mainframe Data including Packed Numbers with SQL Server Integration Services
Integration Services Data Flow Transformations	Importing Mainframe Data with SQL Server Integration Services
Integration Services Development	Get Progress Information for SSIS Script Tasks
Integration Services Development	Importing character columns containing binary zeros into SQL Server
Integration Services Development	Importing Mainframe Data with SQL Server Integration Services and Host Integration Server
Integration Services Development	Introduction to Mainframe Data Storage for SSIS Developers
Integration Services Performance	Parallelize Data Flows with SSIS Balanced Data Distributor Transformation
Linked Servers	SQL Server Linked Server Error could not map ordinals for one or more columns
Locking and Blocking	Does updating SQL Server statistics cause blocking
Locking and Blocking	Implementing SQL Server Transaction Retry Logic for failed transactions
Locking and Blocking	Monitoring SQL Server Blocked Sessions with SQLCMD
Log Shipping	Monitoring SQL Server Log Shipping with sqlcmd
Maintenance	Deleting Historical Data from a Large Highly Concurrent SQL Server Database Table
Monitoring	Automatically Send Performance Dashboard Reports during a database event using Reporting Services
Monitoring	Create SQL Server Disk Space Report for All Servers
Monitoring	Real time auditing of failed SQL Server logins with user settable performance counters in Performance Monitor
Performance Tuning	Create a Process Dump of SQL Server using SqlDumper.exe Tool
Performance Tuning	Disabling SQL Server Optimizer Rules with QUERYRULEOFF
Performance Tuning	Enabling SQL Server Trace Flag for a Poor Performing Query Using QUERYTRACEON
Performance Tuning	First Steps for SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting
Performance Tuning	SQL Server Performance Tuning with Hypothetical Indexes
Performance Tuning	Troubleshooting SQL Server Transaction Log Related Wait Types
Performance Tuning	Usage of DBCC OPTIMIZER_WHATIF for SQL Server Query Tuning
PowerShell	How to Modify the Global DNS Configuration on Servers Using PowerShell
Query Optimization	Different Approaches to Correct SQL Server Parameter Sniffing
Referential Integrity	SQL Server Referential Integrity Across Databases Using Triggers
Reporting Services Data Sources	Implement Dynamic Data Sources in SQL Server Reporting Services
Reporting Services Development	Automatic SSRS report output of all report parameter combinations
Reporting Services Development	Simulate Reporting Services Data Driven Subscriptions on Unsupported Editions
Scripts	Issues with SQLCMD when using special characters
Security	Implementing SQL Server Row and Cell Level Security
Security	Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities Impact on SQL Server
SQL Operations Studio	Install SQL Operations Studio on Ubuntu Linux
SQL Server 2016	Automatic Updates for SQL Server Management Studio
SQL Server 2016	Getting Per Session Wait Statistics in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016	Implement Row Level Security Natively with SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016	Install SQL Server Management Studio with Web Installer without Internet Access
SQL Server 2016	New Features in SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016	New SQL Server Management Studio Azure Integration
SQL Server 2016	Troubleshoot SQL Server Function Performance with the sys.dm_exec_function_stats DMV
SQL Server 2022	New and Enhanced Features in SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022	Using Granular Permissions with Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server
SQL Server Agent	SQL Server Agent Service Won't Start Due to Access Denied
SQL Server Configurations	Increasing Buffer Pool in SQL Server 2014
SQL Server Configurations	Recover SQL Server Resource Database
SQL Server Configurations	SQL Server could not spawn FRunCommunicationsManager thread
SQL Server Management Studio	SQL Server Management Studio Performance Dashboard Reports Overview
SQL Server on Linux	Adding SQL Server Tools to the PATH Environment Variable on Linux
SQL Server on Linux	Configure SQL Server on Linux
SQL Server on Linux	Configure SQL Server on Linux to Use Windows Authentication
SQL Server on Linux	Introduction to Bash Scripting for SQL Server DBAs
SQL Server on Linux	Introduction to Bash Scripting for SQL Server: Declaration of Variables and Constants
SQL Server on Linux	Introduction to Bash Scripting: Conditional Statements
SQL Server on Linux	Introduction to Bash Scripting: Display User Messages and Catch User Input
SQL Server on Linux	Introduction to Bash Scripting: Functions
SQL Server on Linux	Introduction to Bash Scripting: Iterative Statements Using Loops
SQL Server on Linux	Introduction to Bash Scripting: Parameter Expansions
SQL Server on Linux	Introduction to Bash Scripting: Pipes and Redirections
SQL Server on Linux	Linux Administration for SQL Server DBA’s: Changing the I/O Scheduler
SQL Server on Linux	Linux Administration for SQL Server DBA’s: Checking CPU Usage
SQL Server on Linux	Linux Administration for SQL Server DBA’s: Checking Disk I/O
SQL Server on Linux	Linux Administration for SQL Server DBA’s: Checking Disk Space
SQL Server on Linux	Linux Administration for SQL Server DBA’s: Checking Network I/O
SQL Server on Linux	Restore or Attach a Windows SQL Server Database Backup on a Linux Server
SQL Server on Linux	Scheduling SQL Server Tasks on Linux
SQL Server on Linux	Scheduling SQL Server Tasks on Linux Part 2: Advanced Cron Topics
SQL Server on Linux	Scheduling SQL Server Tasks on Linux Part 3: Sending E-Mail Alerts with Cron
SQL Server on Linux	Update SQL Server Applications on Ubuntu Linux with Apt
SQL Server on Linux	Upgrading an Ubuntu Linux Distribution
System Databases	How to Restore Model Database in SQL Server
System Databases	Replace Model SQL Server Database with a User Database
System Databases	Track SQL Server TempDB Space Usage
Tools	Different Ways to Connect to SQL Server Using sqlcmd
Triggers	Build SQL Server CLR Triggers
Triggers	DDL Trigger Notification for SQL Server Linked Server Changes
Triggers	How to Create, Modify or Drop a SQL Server Trigger
Triggers	How to find Updated Column in SQL Server Trigger
Triggers	How to View Triggers in SQL Server Management Studio
Triggers	SQL Server Trigger Best Practices
Triggers	SQL Server Trigger Example
Triggers	SQL Server Trigger on View Example
Triggers	SQL Server Triggers Pros and Cons
TSQL	Get SQL Server Row Count and Space Used with the sp_rows
TSQL	SQL Server Loop through Table Rows without Cursor
Upgrades and Migrations	What's new in SQL Server 2014? Is it worth the upgrade?
User Defined Type UDT	SQL Server CLR User Defined Types Example

Tutorial	Topic
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	Triggers in SQL Server Tutorial
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	Type of Triggers in SQL Server
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	Purpose of Triggers in SQL Server
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	Pros and Cons of Triggers in SQL Server
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	DML Triggers in SQL Server
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Triggers INSERTED Table
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Triggers DELETED Table
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Trigger After Insert
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Trigger After Update
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Trigger After Delete
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Trigger Instead of Insert
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Trigger Instead of Update
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Trigger Instead of Delete
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	Create Trigger for SQL Server Insert Update and Delete
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	Nested and Recursive Triggers in SQL Server
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	DDL Triggers in SQL Server
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	DDL Trigger Example in SQL Server
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	Trigger Functions in SQL Server
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Logon Trigger Example
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	SQL Server Disable and Enable Triggers
SQL Server Triggers Tutorial	Useful Queries for Triggers in SQL Server

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