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
843 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
DevUp 2025 Recap
By DataOnWheels
Had an incredible time at DevUp in St. Louis this weekend! This conference gets...
How AI is Shaping Sustainable Textile Solutions
By Chris Yates
The textile world is undergoing a transformation, one where creativity meets computation, and tradition...
Microsoft Exchange Hybrid Deployment Vulnerability – Shared Service Principal
By Brian Kelley
On August 6, 2025, Microsoft announced a vulnerability with hybrid deployments because of a...
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Question of the Day
Getting Azure SQL Database Permissions
When I run this on Azure SQL Database, what is returned?
SELECT * FROM sys.fn_builtin_permissions('Server') AS fbpSee possible answers