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  • RE: Serious Hacking

    Wayne West (10/21/2015)


    Eric M Russell (10/21/2015)


    If someone (or something), other than the official DBA, unexpectedly changes configuration settings on the database server, then you probably want to immediately close all...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Script out passwords

    Iwas Bornready (10/21/2015)


    Funny. I actually thought you had something there.

    Are you referring to the brute force dictionary query against sys logins table to get passwords? Yes, it works. There are...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Bad Management

    One definition of a "bad manager" is one who locks themselves in their corner office from 8am - 5pm every day, or one who spends their day hovering over the...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Serious Hacking

    timlenz (10/20/2015)


    Mike Fal (github.com/MikeFal) did an excellent presentation to our SQL Users Group on configuring your servers using PowerShell. By having the configuration setup he was able to install a...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Retrieving DDL & other object changes from DMVs

    SQLCurious (10/20/2015)


    Thanks, Eric. Unfortunately, that's not enough for me since it will only tell me that the object has been modified...that too the most recent one. I need to know...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Retrieving DDL & other object changes from DMVs

    The following will return all objects modified today.

    select * from sys.objects where cast(modify_date as date) = cast(getdate() as date);

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Deleting large batches of rows - optimum batch size?

    Kim Crosser (10/20/2015)


    Eric M Russell (10/19/2015)


    it's indicative of poor ETL processing or poor data modeling. I mean, why insert something and then delete it?

    We have interfaces with other systems where...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Serious Hacking

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/20/2015)


    Eric M Russell (10/20/2015)


    It makes me wonder how anyone (regardless of whether they are a hacker or the CIO) can download records for 40 million...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Some spid's Blocked By 2 SPid's without share table !!!

    The following gem will list what database/objects currently are locked by an open transaction, the type of lock used (ie: Exclusive vs. Shared) and also the SPID, login name, etc....

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Serious Hacking

    Let's assume a hacker can gain access to a privileged account on a highly sensitive database, like the one belonging to the federal government's Office of Personnel Management.

    (OK, let...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Deleting large batches of rows - optimum batch size?

    Lynn Pettis (10/19/2015)


    Eric M Russell (10/19/2015)


    What % of rows are you deleting and how often? If > 25%, then you probably want to go ahead and just drop all indexes...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Deleting large batches of rows - optimum batch size?

    What % of rows are you deleting and how often? If > 25%, then you probably want to go ahead and just drop all indexes and then rebuild afterward. Another...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Database Tuning Advisor crashes on complex query

    Indianrock (10/19/2015)


    Yes, its not pretty. With 30 indexes on the table, I was hoping to find some to remove or change. Very difficult to do when such updates...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Database Tuning Advisor crashes on complex query

    Lynn Pettis (10/19/2015)


    Here is the update query initially post in a slightly more readable format:

    ...

    Looking at this, I started having a problem following it. This is something I'd have...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Using Latitude and Longitude to get the name of a state

    To start, you would need a reference table mapping the longitude and latitude boundaries of each state, wouldn't you?

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