Determining Active Directory Group Membership
As discussed in my previous post I prefer to use Windows authentication over SQL authentication on my SQL Servers. There...
2012-01-24
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SQL Server 365
Security - SQL vs Windows
Security is a very important part of every DBA’s role. If you are not clued up on security best practices...
2012-01-23
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Database uplevel Restores Follow On
Today's post is a follow on from one earlier this month Database uplevel Restores. I got round to testing restoring...
2012-01-20
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Don’t Be a Balloon!
I had a problem just before the festive period where one of our production SQL Servers was randomly grinding to...
2012-01-18
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Moving Database Files and Replication
Today’s post is a quick one as I am a bit under the cosh.
There are many ways to move database...
2012-01-13
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System Stored Procedures
I've been using 4 alerts for corruption now for about 2 years for Errors 823, 824, 825 and 9100. Basically...
2012-01-11
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Server Name and SQL Server Name
I have, in the past had the need to rename a server, either because the server has been named incorrectly...
2012-01-10
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Database uplevel Restores
Today I've been reading Paul Randal's collection of Blogs from a series called A SQL Server DBA myth a day....
2012-01-06
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SQL Server Error Logs
I read a blog post this morning on SQLServerCentral by Tim Radney about SQL Server Error Logs. Tim talks about...
2012-01-04
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Dropping a Database
I came across an issue on a server this morning where a drive had run out of free space. Now given...
2012-01-03
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Automatically generate tabular model partitions
Hi. I hope someone can give some useful suggestions. My workplace have a suite...
SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;