Posted in Security SQL Server

Sharing: Feature Restrictions in SQL Server 2019 – a warning

Solomon Rutzky posted some thoughts on the new “Feature Restrictions” in SQL Server 2019, which some have said might help with SQL Injection. He writes…

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Posted in Azure SQL Server

SQL Login Failures and Azure SQL

We ran into an issue recently with a large number of SQL Login failures triggering an alert for our sysadmins. This was in one of…

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Posted in SQL Server

A Speaker’s Workshop in 35 Minutes

Buck Woody shares a much abbreviated video of his speaking workshop to help others become a better speaker and present more effective sessions. Well, not…

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Posted in SQL Server TSQL

TSQL: OUTPUT Columns Not In Target Table

One of the challenges I’ve run into regularly throughout my years trying to convert data from one system to another is that we have a…

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Posted in Programming SQL Server TSQL TSQL Tuesday

TSQL Tuesday: “Disabling” Triggers Without ALTERs

I’ve worked with my share of Triggers over the years. Most of the time, they were relatively simple affairs – do a simple update to…

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Posted in Modelling Software SQL Server

ER Diagram Software Options for SQL Server

I’ve seen this come up several times recently in the SQL Server Community. There are diagrams built in to SSMS, but they’re a bit limited…

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Posted in SQL Server SSIS

SSIS Catalog (SSISDB) Cleanup

I really appreciate what MS has done w/ the SSIS Catalog. We have built-in logging at a level that wasn’t possible in prior releases, but…

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Posted in SQL Server

Troubleshooting Database Mail on SQL Server 2016

tl/dr – Install the .NET Framework 3.5 feature on your server I was setting up a new SQL Server 2016 machine today and going through…

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Posted in DBA SQL Server

Long-Running Queries and Extended Events

This has been something I’ve wanted to investigate for a while now. I’ve know you could use Profiler and set up server-side traces to capture…

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Posted in SQL Server

SQL Server 2016, Database Mail and .Net 3.5 Framework

I came across this post in the SQL Server Slack chats and wanted to make sure that this information was shared so others don’t fall…

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