Detecting and Removing Duplicate Indexes
Indexes are the solution to many performance problems, but with too many indexes on tables can hurt the performance of...
2012-09-14
1,779 reads
Basit Aalishan Masood-Al-Farooq
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 2)
In my last article “Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 1)“, I’ve provided an overview of Microsoft Windows...
2012-09-06
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Capture SQL Server Deadlocks using Extended Events
Microsoft SQL Server provides a variety of different options to monitor deadlocks. This includes Trace flags 1204 and 1222, SQL...
2012-09-03
1,478 reads
SQL Server Guest User – Still a Serious Security Threat
One of the security recommendation inside SQL Server Security Best Practice white paper for guest user is that, to disable...
2012-08-31 (first published: 2012-08-28)
5,267 reads
Tips For Minimizing Deadlocks in SQL Server
Database servers are configured in such a way that they can service multiple requests from multiple users. Obviously this increases...
2012-08-23
2,464 reads
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Database Mirroring
Database security is essential for the organisations working in healthcare and financial sector because the databases in such organisations contain...
2012-08-23
1,732 reads
Different ways to audit SQL Server security
Today, my first article (ie. Different ways to audit SQL Server security) published on SearchSQLServer.com. In this article, I discussed...
2012-08-17
1,082 reads
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1)
Windows Azure SQL Database also known as SQL Server Data Services or simply SQL Azure is a Microsoft’s cloud services...
2012-08-16
1,918 reads
Find failed SQL Agent jobs using Transact-SQL script
Today, I’m sharing the following T-SQL script which you can use to find which SQL Server Agent Jobs failed yesterday....
2012-08-15
2,285 reads
How to find SQL Agent Jobs without Notification Operator Configured?
We can either use SQL Server Management Studio or use Transact-SQL query to find any SQL Agent jobs that have...
2012-08-12
2,533 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #174 – My Favorite Interview Question
By Steve Jones
This month is a great topic to me. I think growing and improving your...
T-SQL Tuesday #174: Job Interview Questions
By Brian Kelley
Once upon a time, I used to think of difficult technical questions to ask...
Power BI: Refreshable Excel Files in PBI Service
By DataOnWheels
Ever since Excel made its debut in the 1980’s, it has been used as...
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SQL driver to connect to old version
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Combining Silver Tables into a Model – Data Engineering with Fabric
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