The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
From bloated error logs to risky logon triggers, a guide to auditing connections without killing performance.
2026-07-29
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From bloated error logs to risky logon triggers, a guide to auditing connections without killing performance.
2026-07-29
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A real world story of how someone moved from Enterprise Edition to Standard for not only the SQL Server database engine, but also with SSRS, SSIS, and SSAS.
2026-07-22
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This article explains how to customize an extended events session in SQL Server Analysis Services for auditing and monitoring
2025-11-05
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Spotting synchronization disconnects between a primary and a secondary data center in a distributed availability group configuration can be hard, so here are valuable tools to help you with it
2025-10-10
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2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-04)
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This article describes the process to create a read-scale cross-platform SQL Server Availability Group where the primary is Linux and the secondary is Windows.
2025-07-23
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2025-07-23
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This article shows the final step of an availability group creation, specifically for a distributed clusterless one.
2025-07-14
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Learn how you can integrate the SQL Server error logs into Crowdstrike for better analysis.
2025-03-17
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Keeping track of all the security related logs can be hard. Using your security team to shoulder some of the load can help. Learn how in this article.
2024-12-16
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By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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