The Transaction Log provides the means by which either the complete set of tasks of a database transaction are performed or none of them are. It ensures that , via rollback, only valid data is written out to the database, and it allows transactions to be played back to recreate the system state right before a failure. Robert Sheldon explains the various basic tasks involved in managing the transaction log.
2009-11-23
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Some useful undocumented extended and stored procedures in SQL Server 2005
2009-11-20 (first published: 2008-05-09)
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or our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we selected Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been so successful in the past year with his books and presentations. How does he manage to pack so much into his life? We sent Richard Morris to find out.
2009-11-20
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Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
2009-11-20
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Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
2009-11-20
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Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
2009-11-20
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One of the most underused features in SSMS is the additional templates that are available for MDX, DMX, and XMLA....
2009-11-20
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After several tries I think we finally have it working. If you were unable to attend the last two SQLLunches,...
2009-11-20
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If your company needs to go through a SOX (Sarbanes–Oxley) audit or any security audit, the DBA has to provide security information to them. If you have purchased third party tools to provide this information that is great. If you don't have third party tools and need to go through many servers to provide this information it can be a hassle and very time consuming. So I put together a script to generate a report that I could just review. The script generates a report of all elevated level accounts and any possible security holes.
2009-11-20
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It seems that the ownership of jobs is something that is often overlooked when articles explain
2009-11-19
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By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...
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I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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