Interview Question of the Week #024 – What is the Best Recovery Model?

Here is one of the most popular questions I often see people asking on the internet. Question: What is the best recovery model for my database? Answer: Every situation is different and each situation has different needs for the recovery model. SQL Server offers three recovery models: full recovery, simple recovery and…
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SQL SERVER – Login failed for User ‘NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON’ – ERRORLOG

Errors related to logins are one of the most searched in this blog. Many of the blogs that talk about these errors are the ones that get viewed often too. This is one of the interesting errors, which you might see in your environments. One of my blog reader contacted me and told that their event log and ERRORLOG is full of below the messages:

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SQL SERVER – Security Auditing With ApexSQL Audit

SQL Servers and databases are probably the most critical IT parts of an enterprise. The most important and confidential data are stored there and even a potential issue with that data can be business critical. In situations where significant preventive/protective actions are applied, such measures will not be of any help in determining the cause of an incident when it occurs. For that purpose, establishing the SQL Server continuous auditing and especially being informed, timely of security configuration changes have been of the utmost importance. Let us learn about Security Auditing.

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