SQL Server Locks – Back to Basics
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2016-03-08 (first published: 2016-03-01)
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SQL Server Locks – Back to Basics
A fundamental component of SQL Server is locking and locks. The locking mechanism helps to control access to resources to help maintain data integrity.
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SQL Server Principals – Back to Basics
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2016-02-03 (first published: 2016-01-28)
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SQL Server Principals – Back to Basics
A fundamental component of SQL Server is the security layer. A principle player in security in SQL Server comes via principals.
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2016-01-21 (first published: 2016-01-12)
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All about the Change
The use of SQL Audit can be viable to track the changes that may be occurring within your SQL Server - from a settings point of view
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2016-01-13 (first published: 2016-01-08)
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Alter Event Session
Altering an Extended Event session is not necessarily a difficult task, but it is a very useful ability. Having this basic skill in your wheelhouse can be very positive...
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Waiting, is it a Bad Thing?
Despite the desire to get away from the GUI talk in these articles about Extended Events, I have so far...
2016-01-06
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Waiting, is it a Bad Thing?
One of the more useful troubleshooting tools (granted when used properly and not with a knee jerk approach) is waits. There are waits in SQL Server that are very...
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Question of the Day
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If I want to track which login called a stored procedure and use the value in an audit, what function can I use to replace the xxx below?
create procedure AddNewCustomer
@customername varchar(200)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @added VARCHAR(100)
SELECT @added = xxx
IF @customername IS NOT NULL
INSERT dbo.Customer
(
CustomerName,
AddedBy
)
VALUES
(@customername, @added)
END See possible answers