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
1,712 reads
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
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...