Who's been logging into my SQL Server?
In a recent blog post, see the steps Denny Cherry thinks are vital to monitoring both successful and unsuccessful outside user logins to your SQL Server.
2009-06-29
4,897 reads
Auditing
Rant: Is It an Effective Control or Not?
This is spurred on by a comment a pen tester made. He was referring to a particular technology and said something to the effect of, "What do you expect? It's 30 year-old technology." I was stunned when the comment was relayed to me. My response...
2009-05-13
2,363 reads
SQL Server Audit: Magic without a Wizard
In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduced SQL Server Audit. This is much better than anything we had before, and is likely to meet the needs of all but the largest, or most highly-regulated industries. SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition includes all of the features, whereas SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition only provides a subset. What is most attractive about it, is that it is easy to administer, as Thomas LaRock explains.
2009-05-12
2,638 reads
Imaginative Auditing with Rollback (Undo) and RollForward (Redo) Part I
Using an audit table to rollback changes to data might be a nice addition to many applications. David McKinney's new series looks at how you can use this data for RollBack or RollForward.
2009-05-11
6,379 reads
Auditing Failed Logins in SQL Server
An auditor has taken a look at our SQL Servers and has told us that we need to audit login failures to the SQL Servers themselves. How do we do this?
2009-05-06
3,583 reads
2009-03-27
3,017 reads
Analyzing SQL Server Permissions
This article shows the steps to analyze SQL Server logins and permissions to ensure that there are no logins and users that exist who are have unnecessary access
2009-03-17
3,464 reads
2009-02-09
4,908 reads
ETL Auditing
This Article shows a method to audit ETL-Processes to be able to retrace processes and affected data.
2008-12-12
11,518 reads
Monitoring Changes in Your Database Using DDL Triggers
Auditing and monitoring activity in your databases is becoming more and more important all the time. New author David Dye brings us a short introduction to using DDL triggers to help.
2008-10-02
11,447 reads
Blogs
Why Optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer
One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize...
Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server
Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server,...
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
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The Read Committed Snapshot Isolation behaviour
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Working with JSON/JSONB Data in PostgreSQL using Python
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Question of the Day
The Read Committed Snapshot Isolation behaviour
I am currently working with Sql Server 2022 and AdventureWorks database. First of all, let's set the "Read Committed Snapshot" to ON:
use master; go alter database AdventureWorks set read_committed_snapshot on with no_wait; goThen, from Session 1, I execute the following code:
--Session 1 use AdventureWorks; go create table ##t1 (id int, f1 varchar(10)); go insert into ##t1 values (1, 'A');From another session, called Session 2, I open a transaction and execute the following update:
--Session 2 use AdventureWorks; go begin tran; update ##t1 set f1 = 'B' where id = 1;Now, going back to Session 1, what happens if I execute this statement?
--Session 1 select f1 from ##t1 where id = 1;See possible answers