SQL Server: Understanding the Data Page Structure
We all know very well that SQL server stores data in 8 KB pages and it is the basic unit...
2012-08-20 (first published: 2012-08-12)
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SQL Server : Implementation of Table Valued Parameter (TVP)
Some time there will be situation in application , where a
grid is populated with data and user has option to edit...
2012-08-09 (first published: 2012-08-01)
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SQL Server: List Explicit Permission on Database for Login and Database Role
As part of security audit of login's, we have discussed earlier about the orphan users , listing server level and database level role...
2012-08-07
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SQL Server : Lost all Administrator Account in SQL Server and Forgot sa Account Password
What will happen if you lost all your administrator account by mistake ? As per the best practice you have disabled...
2012-08-06
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SQL Server: How Recursive Common Table Expression (CTE) Works ?
Last Friday evening, I forced to look into a procedure which is using Recursive Common Table (CTE) . The procedure was...
2012-08-06
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SQL Server : List Login's Database and Server Level Role Permission
In my last post, we have discussed about the orphaned users and fixing the orphaned users. The next step in...
2012-08-05
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SQL Server : Fixing the Orphaned Users
In my last post , we have discussed about orphaned uses and how to find out the orphaned users. In this...
2012-08-02
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SQL Server:Finding the Orphaned Users
Orphaned user is a common problem in SQL server world.When I was working on internal security audit of our production...
2012-08-02
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SQL Server : Dedicated Administrator Connections
Think about a scenario : People are complaining about your production database server.Many users are getting continuous time out error. Rest...
2012-08-01 (first published: 2012-07-30)
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Windows Cluster: Moving Quorum Disk to Another Node
In my earlier post I have explained about various quorum settings available in Microsoft windows 2008 cluster environment. While we plan to...
2012-07-23
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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