I have written a number of blogs around contained databases in the past which you can search. In today’s blog we will talk about security considerations when working with contained databases. With contained authentication, the database can contain authentication information for the database users. This makes it considerably easier to move databases between servers. Some of the other blogs for reference are:
Interview Question of the Week #037 – What are the Properties of Relational Tables?
The other day in the interview, I heard this question and it sent me back to my college days as I used to hear similar questions from my professors. Here is the same question again and its answer. Question: What are the properties of the relational tables? Answers:Â Relational tables have…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Edition Upgrade from Evaluation to Enterprise Core – AlwaysOn Warning!
While preparing for a demo about SQL migration, one of the demo was to show the steps needed to upgrade Evaluation edition to full version of SQL Server. The steps are pretty simple and already blogged at many place on the internet. One of my own blog also shows that:…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – FIX – Replication Error: SQL Server replication requires the actual server name to make a connection to the serverÂ
Replication as a topic is quite old and proven technology. After I saw the introduction of SQL Server AlwaysOn from SQL Server 2012, I hardly see folks talking about replication. For me replication will always be a technology which allows for partial (selected tables/articles) synchronization technology, which a lot of…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Notes about scheduler with Operating Systems
Last week I visited my hometown and also made a trip to my college to relive some of my learning days. I bumped into one of my professors who was going for a class. I requested to attend and wanted to contribute. The discussion then moved to a core topic…
Read MoreSQL SERVER 2016: Updating Non-Clustered ColumnStore Index Enhancement
Sometimes our learnings are questioned and it is important to visit some of my prior blogs to validate the content. This blog is initiated because one of my blog readers who was playing with columnstore index did a lookup to my blog – Updating Data in A Columnstore Index and…
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SQL SERVER – Database Source Control with ApexSQL Software
This article covers the main features of ApexSQL tools that are involved with SQL source control. For the purpose of the article, we will use ApexSQL Source Control, ApexSQL Diff and ApexSQL Build.
SQL SERVER – ERROR: Autogrow of file ‘MyDB_log’ in database ‘MyDB’ was cancelled by user or timed out after 30121 milliseconds
One of the most difficult and haunted issue for any DBA is to do a root cause analysis or RCA of a performance issue with SQL Server. That is why monitoring of SQL Server is very important and companies spend a lot of time in buying tools for that. Sometimes,…
Read MoreInterview Question of the Week #036 – What is the difference between @@DATEFIRST and SET DATEFIRST?
Question: What is the difference between @@DATEFIRST and SET DATEFIRST with respect to SQL Server? Answer: SQL Server with US English as default language, SQL Server sets DATEFIRST to 7 (Sunday) by default. We can reset any day as the first day of the week using SET DATEFIRST 5 This will set…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Who Dropped Table or Database?
I used to run a series on Hero’s and Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorite. There is always a need to get to the bottom of the problem statement and whether you are a developer or a DBA, at least once you might have been asked one of the…
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