SQL SERVER – SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics – SQL in Sixty Seconds #006 – Video

A DBA’s role is critical, because a production environment has to run 24×7, hence maintenance, trouble shooting, and quick resolutions are the need of the hour.  The first baby step into any performance tuning exercise in SQL Server involves creating, analyzing, and maintaining indexes. Though we have learnt indexing concepts…
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SQL SERVER – T-SQL Errors and Reactions – Demo – SQL in Sixty Seconds #005 – Video

We got tremendous response to video of Error and Reaction of SQL in Sixty Seconds #002. We all have idea how SQL Server reacts when it encounters T-SQL Error. Today Rick explains the same in quick seconds. After watching this I felt confident to answer talk about SQL Server’s reaction to…
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SQL SERVER – Identifying Guest User using Policy Based Management

If you are following my recent blog posts, you may have noticed that I’ve written a lot about Guest User in SQL Server. Here are all the blog posts which I have written on Policy Based Management subject. One of the requests I received was whether we could create a policy that would prevent users unable guest user in user databases. Well, here is a quick tutorial to answer this. Let us see how quickly we can do it.

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SQL SERVER – guest User and MSDB Database – Enable guest User on MSDB Database

I have written a few articles recently on the subject of guest account and MSDB Database. Here’s a quick list of these articles:

SQL SERVER – Disable Guest Account – Serious Security Issue
SQL SERVER – Force Removing User from Database – Fix: Error: Could not drop login ‘test’ as the user is currently logged in.
SQL SERVER – Detecting guest User Permissions – guest User Access Status

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SQL SERVER – T-SQL Constructs – Declaration and Initialization – SQL in Sixty Seconds #003 – Video

We got tremendous response to our very first video of SQL in Sixty Seconds #001 and SQL in Sixty Seconds #002. We talked about how to convert Subquery to CTE and Error and Reaction. My co-authors Vinod Kumar and Rick Morelan, we often came across very interesting and useful tips which we…
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