Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I presented a T-SQL query that will return a summary of login permissions within...
2013-11-13
548 reads
Tracy McKibben
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The Cloud Is Scary – #TSQL2sDay #49
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time! I haven’t contributed in a while, so I really wanted to participate this time. The topic...
2013-11-12
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 1
A big part of my job is controlling security to multiple production databases, and reporting on that security for quarterly...
2013-11-11
1,009 reads
Building The Redneck Treadmill Desk
Don’t tell Brent Ozar, but here’s another DBA writing another helpful article about shrinkage. Before he gets bent out of...
2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-11-04)
3,949 reads
Friday Followup for November 8th, 2013
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2013-11-08
432 reads
Transparent Data Encryption’s Dirty Little Secret
Remember when you were eight years old, how exciting it was to order some of those amazing products that were...
2013-11-07
925 reads
Do You Need A Log Recovery Tool?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post dispelling the myth that the simple recovery model disables the transaction...
2013-11-04
934 reads
sp_BackupDatabases v1.2
I just posted a new version of sp_BackupDatabases. The biggest change is that the procedure now creates one-time SQL Agent...
2013-10-29
1,616 reads
What’s In My Utility Belt? Issue #1
Welcome to the first issue of what I hope will become a monthly series called “What’s In My Utility Belt?”....
2013-10-29
540 reads
SQL Query Formatting – Putting Lipstick On A Pig
“Psssst….”
“Hey buddy! Yeah, you there in the propeller hat. You’re a SQL nerd, right? Can you help me tune this...
2013-10-24
901 reads
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