When was my SQL Server Database Last Accessed?
Your boss walks up to you one morning and says, “Hey, I wanna list of all of our databases and when they were last accessed”. If you’ve got some...
2024-04-15 (first published: 2024-04-02)
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sp_snapshot – The easy way to take database snapshots of one of more databases – Version 2.0
Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, to easily create database snapshots. This new version adds more flexibility to the procedure, allowing you to specify the...
2024-02-14 (first published: 2024-02-01)
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Write to backup block blob device failed. Device has reached its limit of allowed blocks.
Picture this, you’re happily backing up your database to a Azure blob storage until suddenly it starts mysteriously failing with the error… Write to backup block blob device https://******...
2023-12-13 (first published: 2023-11-27)
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Penetration Testing your SQL Server, Part 1 – The Recon Mission
Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about security. Do we really know how secure our SQL Servers are?...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-26)
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Finding a History of Database Snapshots, Taken and Restored
This is a question that’s come up twice this morning, firstly where can we find a history of database snapshots and secondly where can we find a history of...
2023-08-30 (first published: 2023-08-14)
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I’ve Got 99 Problems But xp_cmdshell Ain’t One
xp_cmdshell is an extended SQL stored proc that allows users to run Windows command prompt commands from within SQL. Sound scary? It might, but is xp_cmdshell really a security...
2023-04-26 (first published: 2023-04-12)
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Using SQL Alerts to Spot Suspicious Activity in SQL
SQL doesn’t really give us too many tools out of the box to allow us to spot when someone may be up to no good. We can look at...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-29)
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Encryption, Comparing your Options in SQL Server
The question of encryption seems to be coming up a lot recently. I’ve had a number of people asking me about how to go about encrypting SQL Server. SQL...
2023-01-25 (first published: 2023-01-17)
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Database Mirroring login attempt failed with error: ‘Connection handshake failed. An OS call failed: (80090302) 0x80090302(The function requested is not supported).
Here’s a quick one for today and is an issue that had me stumped for a while. It’s not one that I’d come across before and there isn’t really...
2022-11-28 (first published: 2022-11-16)
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DELETE TOP x rows with an ORDER BY
This was an interesting question that I was asked yesterday and something that I’d never really thought of before. Can you delete the top x number of rows based...
2022-09-30 (first published: 2022-09-15)
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Getting ANY of the data
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Getting ANY of the data
I have this data in two tables:
-- Beer table BeerIDBeerNamebrewer 5Becks Interbrew 6Fat Tire New Belgium 7Mac n Jacks Mac & Jack's Brewery 8Alaskan AmberAlaskan Brewing 9Kirin Kirin Brewing -- Beercount table BeerName BottleCount Becks 5 Fat Tire 1 Mac n Jacks 2 Alaskan Amber 4 NULL 7 Corona 2 Tsing Tao 4 Kirin 12What is returned from this query?
SELECT * FROM dbo.BeerCount AS bc WHERE bc.BeerName=ANY (SELECT b2.BeerName FROM dbo.Beer AS b2);See possible answers