Tag Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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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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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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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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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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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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SQL Homework – June 2021 – SQL Audits
Leave a commentJune 1, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Last month I had you work on Extended Events, so hopefully now you are a bit more comfortable with them. …
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