Category Archives: System Databases
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SQL Homework – November 2021 – Backup, restore, and move the system databases.
2November 2, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
On any instance you have at least 5 system databases. Master, model, msdb, tempdb and one other. First 5 points …
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Is it just me or does msdb feel a lot like a user database?
Leave a commentJuly 17, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
When you think of system databases, tables, etc there are a number of things you might think of. Necessary to …
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db_owner in msdb == sysadmin
2May 6, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
This doesn’t require much in the way discussion. This isn’t exactly a huge issue since I don’t think granting db_owner …
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It’s all just data.
2April 17, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Tables, stored procedures, views, logins, constraints, etc, etc. It’s all just data. In every database system I’ve ever worked on …
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What are the system databases?
5May 21, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I get to help with technical interviews every now and again, and one of the questions we always ask is …
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More Collation Confusion. (tempdb)
1November 8, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve talked about Collation Confusion before. We had the dev and test instances at one collation and the production instance …
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Default database file sizes
5July 12, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s Chris Yates (b/t) birthday! (I think he just tured 19.) And in honor of his birthday we are writing …
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Start SQL Server without tempdb
3January 20, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
tl;dr; Re-start the instance in safe mode (-f startup parameter) and move tempdb. Then re-start without the parameter. While at …
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There are #temp tables and then there are ##temp tables.
1March 16, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Temporary tables are a common enough thing in T-SQL that most of us have probably used them on a fairly …
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SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – January 2014 – Restore the Master
5January 5, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be …
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