Intro In 2008 I wrote an article called “Scope: The drastic caveat with Logon Triggers.” Ever since, we have been using Event Notifications to capture logins for our SQL Server instances. Issues were only very rare, usually on servers that had an extreme load of many connections. In such a case, we stopped this continuous monitoring and […]
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Howto restore master database on a Clustered SQL Server 2019 Instance
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Obscure impact of switch EnforceScriptingOptions to scripting a SQL Server database.
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Instant file initialization also has its advantages when you restore a SQLServer database. This article will show you why.
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Why should any SQLserver administrator, DBA, or Developer be interested in Powershell? Johan Bijens presents a few reasons today.
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To see the frequency of alerts in use, you can reset their fire count.
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In this article, Johan Bijnens shows how logon triggers can bite you in the back.
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Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers