Simple Maintenance Tasks for Non-Production Databases
Log File Sizes:
It's not unusual to see cases where database backups are taken from production and restored to a development or QA environment....
2009-04-23
1,339 reads
Brian Kelley
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Catalog View: sys.sql_logins
When it comes to logins to SQL Server, there are basically 3 types:
SQL Server-based loginsWindows user accountsWindows security groupsThe latter...
2009-04-22
6,924 reads
SQL Server Security Basics: Logins vs. Users
When I discuss SQL Server security, one of the basic concepts I concentrate on is the difference between logins and...
2009-04-21
22,716 reads
Security Basics - The C-I-A Triad
In the course of giving my security presentations over the past year, I've learned that quite a few folks have...
2009-04-20
9,076 reads
Getting Started with Technical Presentations
I was talking with a gentleman last night after the Greater Charleston .NET User Group about career development. He's not...
2009-04-17
784 reads
It's a .NET World!
Next week I'll be giving presentations in Charleston and in Florence here in South Carolina.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - Pee Dee...
2009-04-07
628 reads
Midlands PASS Meeting Tonight!
Next Meeting - April 2, 2009
SPEAKER:Paul S. Waters
During Paul’s 16 years of working in IT, he has held a variety of...
2009-04-02
686 reads
SQL Server Authentication Modes and Surface Area Test
One of the videos I did for JumpStart TV is up on the front page:
SQL Server Authentication Modes
It is an...
2009-03-16
1,134 reads
CONTROL SERVER vs. sysadmin membership
In a previous blog post on Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database, I mentioned that having CONTROL SERVER rights means having implicit rights into the databases. Robert Davis posted a comment asking if there was a difference with respect to explicit permissions between being a member of the sysadmin fixed server role and having CONTROL SERVER rights.
2009-03-16
3,550 reads
[Off-Topic] Eleven Year-Old Making a Difference
Those who know me personally know that I grow my hair out to donate for kids. I have donated a couple of times to Locks of Love . This past Saturday I participated in a hair collection drive led by 11 year-old Sarah Brotman: Midlands girl gets a haircut...
2009-03-13
1,452 reads
Blogs
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely Indexes are...
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Brian Kelley
I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Managing unused indexes
While doing some housekeeping activity on several old but large production databases, I come...
Cloud Performance Considerations
How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...
Question of the Day
Striped Backup File Limits
In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?
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