Articles

SQLServerCentral Article

Standards Are a Good Thing

This week we have another article from Andy that discusses some changes he made at work in conjunction with clustering all his database servers. Not a how-to, just comments about what was changed and why. Worth reading just for the reminder about the potential gotcha that @@ServerName can represent.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-04-09

6,189 reads

Technical Article

Free Webcast Today: SQL Server Security Best Practices

Join SQLServerCentral.com co-founder Brian Knight for this free webcast on SQL Server security best practices. In this session on Technet, we will look at how to protect your system from internal and external security factors. We will look at the types of permissions in your database objects, implementing column and row-level security, and protecting yourself from SQL Injection attacks. We'll also cover best practices for basic and advanced protection for your SQL Server system.

2003-04-02

1,994 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

Cluster That Index!

Quite a while back Andy wrote an article about why not using primary keys and clustered indexes was a worst practice. Chris weighs in this week with a great article that gives some more in depth info on clustered indexes and why he thinks they should be used on every table.

(10)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-03-30

18,831 reads

Blogs

Microsoft MVP 2026: Ten Years on the Data Platform

By

I’m honored to announce that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the...

Building AgentDBA’s Slack Escalation

By

Until now, a CRITICAL finding did the right internal routing, but the last mile...

Changing the Owner Removes Permissions: #SQLNewBlogger

By

This is actually inspired by an article SQL Server Central, which taught me something...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Developer edition cannot connect from other computers

By sqlfriend

I installed a new SQL server 2025 Enterprise developer edition for our development environment....

How Clustering can be Used as a Preprocessing Technique for Classification in Azure Machine Learning

By Dinesh Asanka

Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Clustering can be Used...

Moving the Error Log

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Moving the Error Log

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Moving the Error Log

How can I change the location in which the SQL Server error log is written in SQL Server 2025?

See possible answers