How Do I Kill All Sessions from a Windows Group?
Introduction
The stored procedure I am posting today will kill all sessions for users that are members of a given domain...
2010-04-14
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Notes from the April 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Decided to scrap the pizza this month after one too many late deliveries from Pizza Hut, went with sandwich platters...
2010-04-14
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The SQL Server Community
I attended, and spoke at, the inaugural meeting of the Seacoast SQL Server User’s group last night. There were about...
2010-04-14
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Should I Go? SQL Saturday plans for the year.
There have been quite a few more SQL Saturday announcements this week for new cities. I enjoy attending these events,...
2010-04-14
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OPASS April Meeting Recap
Well, we had our April meeting on Tuesday the 13th. Let's just say it wasn't our most successful meeting, and...
2010-04-14
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Why I Have Had a Hard Time Adopting PowerShell
PowerShell has been out for a while. When it first came out, I went and grabbed a copy and tinkered...
2010-04-14
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Microsoft Changing Their Lifecycle Support Policy
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a new post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about a change in their...
2010-04-14
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A Quick Queue Process
As SQLServerCentral grew, we evolved through a few email sending solutions to meet the demand. We started with a manual...
2010-04-14
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How to Avoid Some Common Developer and DBA Mistakes
In March, I ran a Question of the Month that asked, “What is the biggest mistake/problem you ever found on...
2010-04-14
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A DMV a Day – Day 14
The DMV for Day 14 is sys.dm_os_wait_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the waits encountered by...
2010-04-14
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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