Ever had a situation where a small in-house application written for a small group of employees needed some permissions in the database? How do you handle that? I want to walk through the scenario and provide three reasons that using a Database Role might be the answer you are looking for. Let’s first cover, at … Continue reading Three Reasons to Use a Custom Database Role
Sp_who and sp_who2 have been some very popular T-SQL commands. What if I told you that you could get more and better information from DMVs that have been around since SQL Server 2005? With the advent of SQL Server 2005 came along new objects called Dynamic Management Views, also known as DMVs. One of … Continue reading Retiring sp_who and sp_who2
There are many consistently hot topics around SQL Server. One such topic is, “How does a DBA obtain the latest information on updates?” In this post, I will discuss three places that I frequent for information on SQL Server updates. The first link I want to discuss is http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/. This site gives you a very … Continue reading Three Places to Get Information On New Updates for SQL Server
You may occasionally have the need to relocate database files. What are some reasons that may prompt the need for this type of change? First, someone might have discovered that the database files are on the same drive as the operating system. For a discussion of why you don’t want to do this see this … Continue reading Moving Database Files to Another Drive