Determining Active Directory Group Membership
As discussed in my previous post I prefer to use Windows authentication over SQL authentication on my SQL Servers. There...
2012-01-24
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Chris McGowan
Security - SQL vs Windows
Security is a very important part of every DBA’s role. If you are not clued up on security best practices...
2012-01-23
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Database uplevel Restores Follow On
Today's post is a follow on from one earlier this month Database uplevel Restores. I got round to testing restoring...
2012-01-20
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Don’t Be a Balloon!
I had a problem just before the festive period where one of our production SQL Servers was randomly grinding to...
2012-01-18
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Moving Database Files and Replication
Today’s post is a quick one as I am a bit under the cosh.
There are many ways to move database...
2012-01-13
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System Stored Procedures
I've been using 4 alerts for corruption now for about 2 years for Errors 823, 824, 825 and 9100. Basically...
2012-01-11
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Server Name and SQL Server Name
I have, in the past had the need to rename a server, either because the server has been named incorrectly...
2012-01-10
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Database uplevel Restores
Today I've been reading Paul Randal's collection of Blogs from a series called A SQL Server DBA myth a day....
2012-01-06
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SQL Server Error Logs
I read a blog post this morning on SQLServerCentral by Tim Radney about SQL Server Error Logs. Tim talks about...
2012-01-04
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Dropping a Database
I came across an issue on a server this morning where a drive had run out of free space. Now given...
2012-01-03
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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