During recent we Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we had to restore a database on a server. When we restored a database, we realized that the logical file name of the database was incorrect and we had to change that to something more consistent with the organization’s naming convention. Let us see how we changed logical database file name in a few quick steps.
SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function to Extract Only Numbers From String
In my old post SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function to Extract Only Numbers From String, I showed you User Defined function which can be used to extract only numbers from the given string. In this post, I am going to show you another method of extracting numbers from the string.
SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Generate Fixed Digit OTP Code Using Random Function
One of my blog readers sent me the following mail after reading my earlier blog posts about Random Function and OTP Code. Before you read the email, you can read those blog posts here, here, and here.
SQL SERVER – How to Generate Random Password? – Enhanced Version – Part 2
I have previously written about Random Password before in the blog posts here, here and here. This blog is sent by James Curran, who has created the following generate random password stored procedure keeping the base of the original solution of Tim Cartwright. Thanks to both of this individual SQL Server Expert who has helped me to come up with a more robust solution for a random password.
SQL SERVER – COUNT, FROM and a Query – Interesting Observation
In this blog post today we will see an interesting observation which is related to COUNT and FROM clause in a single query. During my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, this was brought to my attention by one of the attendees.
SQL SERVER – ERROR: Failed to verify the Authenticode signature of FileName
Sometimes there is some malware which would do changes on the machine which is impossible to track. Most of the time, based on my interactions with various clients, we need to format and rebuild the OS because you never know what data is getting compromised using which program running in the background. In this blog, we would learn about an interesting error Failed to verify the Authenticode signature of the filename.
SQL SERVER – Script – Turn off Firewall Remotely (PowerShell, NetSh, PsExec)
I was working with a client to deploy an automated solution to install SQL Server. Since this involved scripting and running PowerShell remotely, we wanted to disable the firewall. Due to automation, we were not supposed to log in to the server and use UI. So, I search on the internet and found a few ways to do that. In this blog, I am going to share scripts which can turn off the firewall remotely.