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
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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
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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)
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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
2,475 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
1,742 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
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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
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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
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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
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers