Category Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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Auditing with “C2 Auditing” and “Common Criteria Compliance”
Leave a commentSeptember 7, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m going to be fairly high level on these because to be honest, if you are going to use them …
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SQL Homework – September 2021 – How good is your recovery plan?
Leave a commentSeptember 2, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Last month I had you create a security standards document. This month we are going to document our recovery plan. …
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The sysname datatype defaults to not NULL.
4August 26, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I was creating a table to store some metadata. Since the metadata I was collecting (sys.databases.name for …
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Error: Cannot continue the execution because the session is in the kill state.
Leave a commentAugust 24, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
This was a rather interesting error. I’d certainly never seen it before, and based on one of the answers to …
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A new presentation on Auditing your databases
Leave a commentAugust 19, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m giving a presentation at the PASS Data Community Summit 2021 being put on by Redgate! It’s going to be …
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Experiment: Does sp_recompile on a table update associated views.
2August 17, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
tldr: No. You have to use sp_refreshview. One of the only good things to come out of all of the …
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Thoughts on a work/life balance – Spend Wisely : T-SQL Tuesday #141
1August 10, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Wow, it’s TSQL Tuesday again! Tjay Belt (blog|twitter) is our host this month and he’d like us to talk about …
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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.
3July 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)?
3July 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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