By Lori Brown | Beginner , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Any login that is a member of the sysadmin role can reset the SA password. But, what if you have a hostile takeover by an application or for some strange reason don’t have any other logins as members of the sysadmin role? Don’t laugh! I have actually run into both […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah What are the critical aspects of SQL Server that a DBA should check on a daily basis? How about on a weekly or monthly basis? Daily Checklist Backups: Check your backups (Full, Differential, Transaction Logs) to validate that they were successfully created per your company’s policies. Nightly Processing: Review the nightly or […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Beginner , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
Available in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition Backup encryption has been introduced in SQL 2014 to allow encrypting backups without being forced to encrypt the entire database. Several encryption algorithms are supported, including Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128, AES 192, AES 256, and Triple DES. You can also compress the encrypted backup. […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Beginner , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
Beginning with SQL Server 2012 and beyond, Microsoft has developed a new feature in all editions of SQL Server that allows us to create databases independent of the instance hosting that database. In this article I will cover some of the features, pros and cons, and how to create a contained database. What is it? […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah After reading up on AlwaysOn Monitoring and Alerting (http://blog.sqlrx.com/2015/08/27/alwayson-monitoring-and-alerting/), I was asked to come up with a way to automatically enable jobs that may only need to run on the primary replica of an availability group. Requirements were that on failover of an AlwaysOn Availability Group some jobs should be […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Available in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition x64 only Buffer Pool Extension is a way to use solid state disks (SSD) as nonvolatile RAM (NvRAM) instead of memory. It reduces latency. It stores clean or committed pages only so there is no risk of data loss and […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Advice , Miscellaneous , Perfmon , SQL Administration , SQL Server
–by Ginger Keys Recently, a client of mine contacted me in a panic because CPU was running at 99-100% over an extended period of time, which was affecting everything on the machine. We’ve all seen it at one time or another. And there are several reasons this could be happening. It could be SQL consuming […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah If you are the usual DBA, you are often the last person to know when something new has been added to the databases you are managing. After finding that some people in an organization were abusing their access to a certain database, I decided to create a TSQL DDL trigger […]
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— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Since I manage several SQL clusters, I came up with a way to get a notification that the cluster may have failed over. This failover notification was created in self-defense because often times no one from the system administrators team will tell the DBA when work is being done or […]
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