Security is probably one of a production DBA's most important tasks and if developers use application or service accounts to run queries in your production environment you need to identify then and prohibit it. I notice some unwanted activity after staring a new job and decided to create a script that notifies me via email when […]
2019-07-04 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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We decided to build a quick worker thread alert so we know when we are near the limits.
2019-05-02
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A function to add or subtract working days taking into account weekends and using a table of non-working days.
2019-05-01
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2019-04-30
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A function to add or subtract working days taking into account weekends and using a table of non-working days.
2019-04-25 (first published: 2019-04-18)
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SQL Server System Audit Report Rudy Panigas, 2018-05-25 (first published: 2016-02-02) With every technology, security is in the forefront of the minds of professionals around the world. Ensuring that your SQL Server is secure is the job of every Database Administrator (DBA). The DBA(s) needs to configure the system to minimize the “attack surface” (reducing […]
2019-04-18
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2019-04-16 (first published: 2019-04-12)
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Function that converts AD UserAccountControl number to details text
2019-04-15 (first published: 2019-04-12)
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A nasty fast way to remove non-numeric and non-alphanumeric characters from a string
2019-03-15 (first published: 2016-05-17)
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2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-20)
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By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers