SYS.PARTITIONS: Better Than X-Ray Vision
Originally posted 2011-09-09 21:27:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Over the past few months, I’ve been doing a lot of work...
2013-11-19 (first published: 2013-11-09)
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 4
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We were introduced to two SQL queries to obtain database login permissions, one for SQL Server 2000, one...
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In Part 1 of this series, I presented a T-SQL query that will return a summary of login permissions within...
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A big part of my job is controlling security to multiple production databases, and reporting on that security for quarterly...
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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)
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2013-11-08
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I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
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