DDL Auditing using the Default trace
This article explains how default trace can be used for auditing purposes when combined with PowerShell scripts
2015-05-05
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Nagaraj Venkatesan
How to Size the SQL Server Memory & Why is it important?
The following blog post has 2 objectives.
1) How to size the memory correctly ( or atleast being close to correctly )
2)...
2013-05-27
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Xp_readerrorlog in SQL Server 2012
I have always been a big fan of Xp_readerrorlog. The simple reason is that it much faster to read errorlog...
2013-05-16
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When was the last successful backup?
What is the fastest and perhaps easiest way to find the last successful database backup?
Just right click on the Database...
2013-03-01
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SQL Server Memory Usage - Task Manager
Another question I have answered 100s of times to Non SQL folks. "SQLServr.Exe is consuming 80% of memory. Can you...
2012-05-20
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Sysprocesses CPU and CPU Percentage - utilization
I am not sure how many of you have faced this situation? I have faced it many many times. Somebody...
2012-04-23
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Calling Function / UDF using linked server
If one needs to call a UDF or System function ( ex: Serverproperty, Getdate(), etc ) on a remote server, then one...
2012-04-08
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Inserting UniCode / Special characters in tables
Consider the situation where one needs to store multilingual data / Special characters into a table. For example Chinese characters or...
2012-03-27
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File Group Backups - Intro
What is File Group backup?
Backing up a portion of a database, say a File Group is termed as Filegroup...
2012-01-13
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Log file size after backup and restore
Quick summary of the post:
A restoration of a full database backup retains the log file size before restoration.
Now...
2011-11-01
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Blogs
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
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TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
Becoming a creator, my website experience
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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
Forums
Collecting active node hostname at centralized location
So folks we have around 30/40 sql server failover cluster insatnce with each having...
Beginner in sql server
Hello, How to add a UNIX_TIMESTAMP at my publish_date please CREATE TABLE [dbo].[latest_info]( [id]...
fast farward curson vs while loop on @table
hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...
Question of the Day
Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers