The Transaction Log provides the means by which either the complete set of tasks of a database transaction are performed or none of them are. It ensures that , via rollback, only valid data is written out to the database, and it allows transactions to be played back to recreate the system state right before a failure. Robert Sheldon explains the various basic tasks involved in managing the transaction log.
Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
Some useful undocumented extended and stored procedures in SQL Server 2005
or our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we selected Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been so successful in the past year with his books and presentations. How does he manage to pack so much into his life? We sent Richard Morris to find out.
Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
One of the most underused features in SSMS is the additional templates that are available for MDX, DMX, and XMLA....
After several tries I think we finally have it working. If you were unable to attend the last two SQLLunches,...
If your company needs to go through a SOX (Sarbanes–Oxley) audit or any security audit, the DBA has to provide security information to them. If you have purchased third party tools to provide this information that is great. If you don't have third party tools and need to go through many servers to provide this information it can be a hassle and very time consuming. So I put together a script to generate a report that I could just review. The script generates a report of all elevated level accounts and any possible security holes.
By Steve Jones
We’re coming back to New York, which is exciting for me. I love NYC....
I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL...
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
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If I want to track historical data values, which mechanism should I use?
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