Recently Used Tables and Databases

Recently developed these queries to assist with the evaluation of development or sandbox environments.  Sometimes disk space demands that old...

April Hammond .net User Group Presentation - SQL Server Security and Permissions

Here's the slide deck and sample files from last night's presentation at the Hammond .net User Group.  We discussed SQL...

SQL Saturday Houston #107 - SQL Server Best Practices with DMV Presentation Files

Thanks for joining me for a standing room only presentation this morning at 9:45am at SQL Saturday #150 Houston.  This...

SQL Script Toolbox for Developers

I work with a motley crowd of developers and have the opportunity to give lunch and learn training sessions on...

Using sys.dm_exec_requests to find a blocking chain and much more

As with every good DBA's toolbox, my blocking list query using sys.dm_exec_requests is evolving.

I've added the following features:

The query execution...

sys.sql_modules vs. INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Routines

Consider the following two queries meant to search for a keyword in SQL programmability objects.
select s.name +'.' + o.name, o.type_desc, m.definition

from sys.sql_modules...

Certification Exams: From the Other Side

Today I took the 70-464 beta exam today "Developing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases" and after spending the last few...

SQLSaturday #107 Houston

About 3 weeks to go until SQLSaturday #107 at YES Prep Public Schools - North Central Campus, 13703 Aldine-Westfield, Houston, TX,...

FILESTREAM and Snapshot Isolation Mode in SQL 2008

FILESTREAM and Snapshot Isolation mode are incompatible in SQL 2008.

In SQL 2008 R2 however...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173763.aspx
In SQL Server 2008 R2, snapshot...

Security and Permissions presentation from the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group Meeting, 3/14/2012

Last night I presented a new presentation I'm working to add to my inventory, SQL Server Permission and Security.  This...