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
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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
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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
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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
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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
847 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
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
Forums
Deadlock graph anomaly
I've come across what appears to be a strange deadlock anomaly. As seen in...
Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale Level 6: Backup and Restore Internals
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale...
The Challenge of AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Challenge of AI, which...
Question of the Day
Deprecated Feature Tracking
From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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