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Audit Columns
3September 28, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the easiest ways to collect information about table activity is to add a series of audit columns to …
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#PowershellBasics: Bulk insert.
Leave a commentSeptember 21, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
In my last post I talked about invoke-sqlcmd. It’s a nice easy way to run a query or a .sql …
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Database Sizes
7September 14, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Quick query today. I needed a list of database sizes so came up with this: Nothing exciting, but I figure …
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Remote Desktop: Force the resolution to match the screen size.
1September 9, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the things I hate most about using remote desktop is when the resolution for the remote server is …
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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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Rule 1: Be kind, be polite.
2August 31, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
In my house, this is rule one. Sometimes it’s my wife or I reminding our kids, sometimes it’s them reminding …
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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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