Apply least privilege SQL Server access with separate runtime and deployment roles, narrow permissions, and tests of allowed and denied actions.
What Is the Transaction Log and Why Does It Keep Growing?
The transaction log records every change before it reaches the data file. Why it grows, what log_reuse_wait_desc is telling you, how the recovery model decides everything, and the one fair reason to shrink it.
SQL SERVER – Introduction to JOINs – Basic of JOINs
A simple introduction to JOINs: INNER JOIN and the three OUTER JOIN types, written for members of the Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group who asked for it.
Reading the SQL Server Support Lifecycle
Read the SQL Server support lifecycle for your exact release, distinguish mainstream and extended support, and plan before coverage ends.
What Is a Database Backup? Full, Differential, Log
A database backup comes in three kinds and they work together. Measured sizes for full, differential and log, why the recovery model decides everything, and the restore order that cannot be improvised.
SQLAuthority News – 900th Article – 9 Best Practices – Important Milestones
Today is my 900th article on this blog. You can see list of all the 900 articles here. I suggest you go over the list and read any article you like.
SQL SERVER – UDF – Pad Ride Side of Number with 0 – Fixed Width Number Display
SQL SERVER – UDF – Pad Ride Side of Number with 0 – Fixed Width Number Display. Let us learn more about this blog.