Tag Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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Disabling and enabling triggers
2March 6, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I tend to feel that a lot of people who use triggers don’t really understand them. That said, every now …
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SQL Homework – March 2019 – Reconfigure tempdb
Leave a commentMarch 4, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
You’ve heard of tempdb right? It’s one of the system databases. All of the system databases are important but poor …
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Why do I (they) own that database?
2February 20, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Ever looked at the list of databases and wonder why you own one of them? Or why some other user …
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Error in SSMS: Attempted to read or write protected memory.
2February 18, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
There are a lot of reasons to write a blog post. One of my favorites is when I’ve been asked …
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DBA Myths: Can a differential backup get bigger than the full backup?
7February 14, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
The thing about DBA Myths is that they are generally widespread and widely believed. At least I believed this one …
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SQL Homework – February 2019 – Instance configurations
5February 4, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
This homework series really has two purposes. It’s a primer for beginners. These are tasks I think most if not …
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Disabling Indexes
3January 28, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Indexes are probably the number one tool we have to improve performance. That said, there are times when we want …
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What’s a differential backup?
2January 23, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Of the different basic types of backups (full, differential and log) I find the differential the most interesting, and frequently …
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Read-only tables
5January 21, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Sometimes you need a table that is read only. You don’t want anyone to be able to write to it …
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Controlling the firewall for an Azure SQL DB via T-SQL
2January 16, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I took a Microsoft Learn course about securing Azure SQL DB. It was really enjoyable and I …
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