First Monday of the month and time to update the monthly SQL Server checklist. Monthly SQL Server checklist, you ask? Oh yes, if you aren't in the habit, you and your co-workers should really be doing this. Checking your SQL Server environment is about making sure that things that can go wrong, don't go wrong. … Continue reading July 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
A while back I put together a blog post on the side effect of NOLOCK. Today I thought I'd push out a video of the issue, in hopes of reaching more people and changing more minds. What are your thoughts?
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: Migrate Logins Between Servers
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: SQL Agent Permissions
Today is the second Monday of June and guess what I didn't publish last week? That’s right, there wasn't an update and reminder to the SQL Server Monthly checklist. Not a big deal, of course, I was at TechEd with about 10,000 other people, talking about indexing SQL Server. Fortunately, for me, waiting a week … Continue reading June 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: TRUNCATE TABLE Permissions
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: Accessing SQL Server Securables
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: Authentication Performance
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: Difference between sysadmin and CONTROL SERVER Permission
As I mentioned in the introductory post, in the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: Differences between “Grant” and “With Grant?”
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