Once there was a security breach on my client machine and they wanted to know who made changes to the SysAdmin role. They contacted me and my first question was that, are you are auditing such changes and as expected answer was No. I gave them answer that nothing can be done as a consultant. They still wanted my suggestion to prevent this in future. So, they want to track if someone does such things in future. Let us see a script to audit login and role member change.
SQL SERVER – Msg 3136, Level 16 – This Differential Backup Cannot be Restored Because the Database has not Been Restored to the Correct Earlier State
I was trying to teach copy-only backups to my students and encountered below error related to differential backup.
SQL SERVER – Msg 3101, Level 16 – Exclusive Access Could not be Obtained Because the Database is in Use
This error might have seen by DBAs and they know how to fix it. This blog goes in little details about what are the various options available. Here is the simple reproduction of the error message related to exclusive access.
SQL SERVER – Management Studio Missing – SSMS 2014 not Installed with SQL Server 2014
Recently I got a message on Skype about SSMS.
Hi Pinal, Need quick suggestion. I am unable to find ssms.exe after installation of SQL Server. Do you know how I can install it?
Initially I thought that since SQL Server 2016 doesn’t come with SQL Server Management Studio, this would be an expected behavior. So, I shared my blog to him.
How to Find Median in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #116
Question: How to Find Median in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – System. Security. Cryptography. CryptographicException – There Was an Error Generating the XML Document
One of my clients contacted me in assistance to install SQL Server. Generally, this is straightforward, but sometimes there are problems. This time we received an error message and it was very interesting. Let us learn about error related to the XML Document.
SQL SERVER – Error 33222, Level 16 – Audit ‘MyAudit’ Failed to Start
My learning is always fun. I strongly believe that unless you break something, you can’t learn how to fix them. While writing a new blog about auditing, I faced an interesting error. So, I thought of writing my findings before I write the actual blog. Let us learn about Audit failed to start Error 33222.
SQL SERVER – 5 Tips to Optimize SQL Server Application Performance
I recently talked with Mark Wright, CTO of Nitrosphere, a company that optimizes SQL Server application performance. Let us talk about it.
SQL SERVER – Express and SQL Server Agent – Free Alternative
“How come my database is only a few MBs big and I am facing performance problems?” My customer asked. I replied, “Well, this is because you are not running job using SQL Server Agent to keep your indexes in the best health.”
SQL SERVER – Huge Size of Table catalog.execution_component_phases in SSISDB
Have you ever faced a situation where the table size in SSISDB is very huge? Are you are wondering what this SSISDB database is? It has information about the SSIS catalog execution and we should not truncate them as they belong to SSIS subsystem. Once I faced a situation where I could see SSISDB was very huge in size. When looking for more help, I found under the MSDN link which talks about the table. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/system-views/catalog-execution-component-phases?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=sql-server-ver15