What about orphaned windows users?
I should start off by mentioning that this post is applicable to sql server versions 2012 and up. If you have an older version of sql server, the solution...
2019-07-09 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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Mission: SQL Homeostasis
Query machine name of the sql server instance - the hard or the harder way
I was at a client where they are using non-Microsoft clustering technology to achieve the high availability of SQL Server instances....
2019-06-26 (first published: 2019-06-13)
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Powershell script to find new servers in an AD domain
This is actually part of a process I am creating to automatically discover SQL Server instances in an Active Directory domain. So there...
2019-06-19 (first published: 2019-06-06)
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Do you have rarely used indexes that are hurting performance of writes?
We know that indexes are necessary for query performance but comes with overhead during DML operations. Usually, the overhead is worth the performance gain we get out of them....
2019-06-10 (first published: 2019-05-21)
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Using Extended Events To Capture Backup and Restore Progress
If you are running a DATABASE BACKUP or RESTORE command manually, SQL Server will show you the progress at a specified % completion interval. For the BACKUP, the default is...
2019-06-03 (first published: 2019-05-16)
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Find identical duplicate indexes - Revised
I realized yesterday I posted this quickly after testing only against SQL 2016 version. So I decided to also test against SQL 2014 and 2012 versions to make sure...
2019-05-16
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Find identical duplicate indexes
The purpose of this query is to find identical duplicate non-clustered indexes i.e. indexes on same table with same columns in same order. If you have a need to...
2019-05-30 (first published: 2019-05-15)
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Capture Trend in Dead Lock Occurances
Deadlocks are usually detected and resolved automatically by SQL Server by killing one of the SPIDs involved in it. You may have an alert setup to notify you and/or users...
2019-05-14 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Do you have out of date index statistics?
As you may all know, having up to date index statistics is the key to make sure the query optimizer can choose the most optimal execution plan for any...
2019-05-01
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Generate script to recreate indexes
For me, this particular code to generate a script to recreate indexes has more practical use in a replication environment.
For example, the default replication setting is to exclude the...
2019-04-25
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When growing companies outgrow Excel
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T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
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Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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