Certificate Based Application Roles
What if I told you that you could sign an assembly that your Windows application uses with a certificate, load...
2010-11-30
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Adventures in SQL
Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On
The other day I was asked to provide the port number that a SQL Server instance was listening on. As...
2010-11-29
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How Do I Change SSRS Report Credentials with Powershell?
Today’s script took a long time to write. The concepts are fairly simple and the resulting script is quite trivial...
2010-11-24
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Careful with the New MCM Requirements
Ever since I first heard about the Microsoft Certified Master program I have been interested. The prestige of the certification...
2010-11-23
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Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free?
I know I do!
The trick is to properly manage your VLFs.
What are VLFs? The short anser is that VLF...
2010-11-19
2,216 reads
Get Drive Space Including Mount Points
Today’s post is a quick one that came out of a conversation on Twitter. To make a long story short,...
2010-11-15
2,843 reads
Troubleshooting SQL Server Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 16
I recently had to track down a rogue process that was failing to log in on one of my servers....
2010-11-12
881 reads
A Brute Force Way to Compress a Database
There are a handful of scripts out there to compress all of of the objects in your SQL 2008 database...
2010-11-05
2,026 reads
When is that Restore Going to Finish?
I spent a good portion of last weekend restoring databases from backup due to a large release. Nothing went wrong,...
2010-10-27
850 reads
Stop Forgetting the DAC
From time to time I hear of DBAs that had to restart the SQL Server service on a 2005 or...
2010-10-06
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Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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SQL Server Still Wins
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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