Managed Service Account Naming Convention
A while back I had to help a customer update their naming standard for their Managed Service Accounts, so I thought I would share some of those details. The...
2022-01-18
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Everyday SQL
Get Certificate Details for SQL Encryption In-Transit Using PowerShell
In my opinion, all customers should be encrypting connections to their SQL Servers to secure data in-transit, but that’s a discussion for another day. Today, I wanted to discuss...
2022-01-04
361 reads
Finding the NTFS Allocation Unit Size for Mount Points
The 64Kb Allocation Unit size is one of the easiest SQL Server best practice items to complete during your new builds, but from time to time, I still see...
2021-12-07
819 reads
PASS is Gone
On January 15, 2021, PASS will cease to exist. https://www.pass.org/PASS-Blog/ArticleID/888/ArtMID/99177/preview/true I cannot tell you how much this disappoints me. PASS has been around for my entire database career, and...
2020-12-29
5 reads
Management Studio Find & Replace Using Regular Expressions
In my last Management Studio tip, I demonstrated how you can drag and drop column names to a query window. The only part I do not like about that...
2020-07-28
19 reads
Management Studio Drag & Drop Column Names
Continuing on my recent trend of Management Studio tips, here is another that could save you a few minutes. In today’s scenario, we need to write a select statement...
2020-07-07
13 reads
SQL Server Audit Recipe – xp_cmdshell
This article assumes you already have a basic understanding of SQL Server Audit, but if not, use this link to catch...
2018-07-17
178 reads
SQL Server Morning Health Checks
Every now and again as a Microsoft PFE, you get a chance to make a big difference for a customer....
2018-01-08 (first published: 2018-01-02)
2,665 reads
Create a Whitelist for SQL Server - UPDATED!!!
A while back, I posted an article about creating a WhiteList for access to SQL Server. Since then I have...
2017-05-16
4,618 reads
Dear McAfee, Why are you destroying my buffer pool?
For the past few months, one my customers had been trying to diagnose an issue with SQL Server paging out...
2017-05-02
1,296 reads
Blogs
On Speaking Well
By Brian Kelley
Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to...
Monday Monitor Tips: Oracle Custom Metrics
By Steve Jones
One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add...
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Forums
Are Akashic Records Course Fees Worth It? IIVS Review & Opinions
I’ve been exploring different platforms to learn about spirituality in a more structured way,...
Troubleshooting WQL in custom PBM conditions?
Hi, I'm currently trying to implement policy based mgmt with a condition to query...
Analysis of Locking Issues on Secondary Replicas in AlwaysOn Availability Groups
We have an AlwaysOn architecture with four replicas: two running in synchronous commit mode...
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The Vector Data Type
What is the vector data type in SQL Server?
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