Detecting and Removing Duplicate Indexes
Indexes are the solution to many performance problems, but with too many indexes on tables can hurt the performance of...
2012-09-14
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Basit's SQL Server Tips
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 2)
In my last article “Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 1)“, I’ve provided an overview of Microsoft Windows...
2012-09-06
1,246 reads
Capture SQL Server Deadlocks using Extended Events
Microsoft SQL Server provides a variety of different options to monitor deadlocks. This includes Trace flags 1204 and 1222, SQL...
2012-09-03
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SQL Server Guest User – Still a Serious Security Threat
One of the security recommendation inside SQL Server Security Best Practice white paper for guest user is that, to disable...
2012-08-31 (first published: 2012-08-28)
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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Database Mirroring
Database security is essential for the organisations working in healthcare and financial sector because the databases in such organisations contain...
2012-08-23
1,742 reads
Tips For Minimizing Deadlocks in SQL Server
Database servers are configured in such a way that they can service multiple requests from multiple users. Obviously this increases...
2012-08-23
2,475 reads
Different ways to audit SQL Server security
Today, my first article (ie. Different ways to audit SQL Server security) published on SearchSQLServer.com. In this article, I discussed...
2012-08-17
1,085 reads
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1)
Windows Azure SQL Database also known as SQL Server Data Services or simply SQL Azure is a Microsoft’s cloud services...
2012-08-16
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Find failed SQL Agent jobs using Transact-SQL script
Today, I’m sharing the following T-SQL script which you can use to find which SQL Server Agent Jobs failed yesterday....
2012-08-15
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How to list all CLR objects inside your database?
I wrote the following query that returns the list of all CLR functions/procedures/objects exists inside your database:
SELECT o.object_id AS [Object_ID]
...
2012-08-12
1,304 reads
Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
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