Discussing Security with Boris Hristov on SQLHangout #29

Over the years I’ve done a number of posts on various aspects of security. In fact the first thing I...

SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – January 2014 – Restore the Master

Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be...

Finding the reason for the error “Subquery returned more than 1 value”

First this type of error is because a subquery returned more than one row when it wasn’t allowed to. In...

Finding a common AD group for a set of users.

I work for a large organization that over the last few years has been doing a LOT of reorgs. And...

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...

Do you want to build an Audit?

So I’ve written my second article for SQL Shack. This time instead of an overview of auditing options in sql...

‘Twas 4:45 Friday

‘Twas 4:45 Friday, and all through the office

not a creature was stirring, not even the bosses.

The code was checked in,...

Playing with the log – VLF order while growing the log

The log file is one of those parts of SQL Server I find fascinating. For instance it is composed of...

Does a clustered index sort the rows within a page

This is just something I was curious about. I ran my tests and got an answer and now I thought...

DROP INDEX and CREATE INDEX vs ALTER INDEX REBUILD

I saw someone ask a few weeks ago if it was faster to drop and re-create an index or do...