Ranga Narasimhan

Ranga Narasimhan has been in IT for about 10 years. He started as a Visual Basic / Crystal Reports developer and then started coding in SQL Server. He has been a SQL Server developer and for the last few years doing SQL server production support operations. In his last job, Ranga was the primary DBA for the Siebel call center database and has learned a lot from the challenges that a very large database can bring and an application where queries are built dynamically. He enjoys spending time with his family. His interests are playing tennis and golf.

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Category	Tip Title
Database Administration	SQL Server Transaction Log Grows And Fills Up Drive
Database Mirroring	Evaluating SQL Server Database Mirroring as a Disaster Recovery Solution
Dynamic Management Views and Functions	Collecting Query Statistics for SQL Server 2005
Microsoft Excel Integration	Using a SQL Server Linked Server to Query Excel Files
Performance Tuning	Automate Performance Monitor Statistics Collection for SQL Server and Windows
Scripts	Auto generate SQL Server UPDATE triggers for data auditing
Security	Security issues when using aliased users in SQL Server
Triggers	Grant Execute Permissions to SQL Server Stored Procedures using DDL Triggers

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