Talk to any financial institution or bank they will be super paranoid when it comes to security and auditing policies applied to their organizations. In a recent session to one of our customers, I had to enter their premises and I had to go through some screening. From the entrance, car parking, reception, elevators and everywhere there was someone asking us for some information. The more I think about it, the more frustrated I become. After returning home, I thought through the complete incident with my family. I was pleasantly surprised the calmness at which they were talking to me about an audit process.
SQL SERVER – Filtering CPU Bound Execution Plans with Extended Events
Let me take a tour to what are we talking here from a scenario point of view. Prior to SQL Server 2012, tracing the execution plan is an all or nothing approach. In profiler, if we select execution plan, we will get every occurrence of every execution plan for all…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Validation Rules: Code or Database? – Notes from the Field #054
[Note from Pinal]: This is a 54th episode of Notes from the Field series. Where do we blame for a mistake or error in the system? Well, developer blames DBA and DBA blame developers. Sometimes there is no solution to the catch 22 situation. I have been there and I…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – What is Hypothetical Indexes?
If you ever thought this is some sort of trick to bring you to the blog, well you are wrong. This infact is something worth a look and interesting thing to know. Before I start to explain you the finer details, let me tell you that this is NOT a…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Take the Quiz for a chance to win a Quadcopter Drone
It has been a long time since we ran quiz. So let us get ready for a quiz. The quiz has two parts. You have to get both the parts correct to win Quadcopter with Camera (we will call it drone). We will be giving away a total of 2…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR : Msg 3136, Level 16, State 1 – This differential backup cannot be restored because the database has not been restored to the correct earlier state
During my recent visit to customer site for a session on backups, they asked me to find the cause of the error while restoring a differential backup. Though this seemed to be completely an admin related topic and I had gone for some other session, I took the challenge head-on.…
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