Make sure you back up the Service Master Key

I’m by no means an expert in SQL Server encryption. What I do know however, is that the Service Master...

How to move Resource DB in SQL Server ?

The Resource database is a read-only database that contains all the system objects. This DB included with SQL Server 2005 to increase security of system metadata. SQL Server system...

How to Measure IO Latency for Database Files in SQL Server

In order to get information about the amounts of PHYSICAL reads we perform on database files, SQL Server exposes a...

How to move Resource DB in SQL Server ?

The Resource database is a read-only database that contains all the system objects. This DB included with SQL Server 2005...

A New Use Case for SQL Prompt – Shrinking Code

I thought this would work, but I wasn’t sure. I saw some code the other day like this:
DECLARE@charASCHAR(1);

SET@char=NULL;

SELECTISNULL(@char, 0);

SELECTCOALESCE(@char, 0);

SET@char='E';

SELECTISNULL(@char,...

SQL Server Quickie #23 – Plan Cache Pollution

Today I have uploaded the 23th SQL Server Quickie to YouTube. This time I’m talking about Plan Cache Pollution in...

SSMS regular expressions: format text into a block

Sean’s RegEx for DBAs class must be finally sinking in for me. Today I was able to figure out a...

Excel Tip #24: Removing “Buttons” from Excel Charts

As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...

How to Add Users to Roles in SSAS, a.k.a., Where the Heck are the Buttons?

I’ve been responsible for administering Analysis Services (SSAS) on a regular basis for the past 7-8 years via SQL Server...

Audit who Dropped the Database

In the first article on this topic (which can be read here), I discussed the problem of having a database get dropped and the need to find out who...