How Do I Identify Invalid or Unneeded Logins?
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I was looking at one of my servers and was caught off-guard by how many individual users had been granted...
2010-04-07
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Introduction
I was looking at one of my servers and was caught off-guard by how many individual users had been granted...
2010-04-07
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Introduction
From time to time I get asked to check if a stored procedure is still used in preparation for dropping...
2010-04-06
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Introduction
I was recently working a production issue that required me to log in via the Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC). When...
2010-04-05
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Introduction
In an earlier post I walked through the diagnosis of a problem with TokenAndPermUserStore bloat in SQL 2005.In this post...
2010-03-25
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Introduction
For that past couple of months I have been chasing performance issues with one of the most high profile servers...
2010-03-09
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Introduction
Recently a coworker was doing some research with SQL 2008 Backup Compression on a very large database. During the testing...
2010-02-25
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Introduction
I am frequently getting requests for a new server to do this or that. Running through the usual questions to...
2010-02-23
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Introduction
Here is another one of my utility scripts. Lately it seems like all I am blogging about is utility scripts,...
2010-02-01
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Introduction
Ever need a programmatic way to figure out if a SQL Agent job is running? I did. After spending a...
2010-01-31
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Introduction
Lately it seems like I am being bombarded by Dynamic SQL and people who insist it is the only way...
2010-01-21
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By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
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The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
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You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate, o_orderkey, o_custkey, o_storekey FROMdbo.orders WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;