Category Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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SQL Homework – August 2021 – Security Standards
1August 3, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
A few years back (wow time flies) I had you Work with Security. It’s been a while so if you …
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Server vs Instance. A rant.
2July 29, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s a SQL Server Instance not a SQL Server. The product is SQL Server. The installed copy is an Instance. …
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How do I unlock a SQL Server Login using T-SQL (without changing the password)?
1July 22, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
We recently had an application login (SQL Server authenticated) in one of our training environments start locking out on a …
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Experiment: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled will BCP pull the non masked data.
2July 20, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Hypothesis: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled on a column then when I use something like BCP to pull …
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Padding a string in SQL Server
1July 15, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been working on converting a piece of DB2 code into T-SQL and one of the functions I had to …
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SQL Homework – July 2021 – Log shipping
Leave a commentJuly 1, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Log shipping is probably the least complicated and easiest to configure of the various methods of creating a secondary copy …
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Another reason I prefer side-by-side SQL Server instance upgrades.
1June 29, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
This is a quick non-technical discussion (i.e. not a how to in any way) of some of the benefits of …
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DDL Trigger to log database level security commands.
4June 24, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
In my last post I talked about reasons why your permissions might go missing. One of the reasons, and in …
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Why are my permissions missing?
Leave a commentJune 22, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
You’d be amazed (or maybe you wouldn’t) how often I hear this: “I used to be able to do xyz …
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#PowershellBasics: Finding a common AD group for a set of users.
3June 17, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
A while back (almost 7 years 😲) I wrote a post on finding the common AD groups of a set …
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