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SQLAuthority News - Best Articles on SQLAuthority.com

SQLAuthority News – Best Articles on SQLAuthority.com

November 4, 2007
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Data Warehousing, Database, DBA, Software Development, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Coding Standards, SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Cursor, SQL DateTime, SQL Download, SQL Error Messages, SQL Function, SQL Humor, SQL Index, SQL Joins, SQL Scripts, SQL Server DBCC, SQL Server Security, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL Trigger, SQL Utility

A list of my best articles so far, from killing all processes in a database and shrinking the log file to deleting duplicate rows and UNION vs UNION ALL.

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SQL SERVER - 2005 - Get Current User - Get Logged In User

SQL SERVER – 2005 – Get Current User – Get Logged In User

October 27, 2007
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server Security, SQL System Table

How to get current user for a query in SQL Server 2005: SELECT SYSTEM_USER returns the name of the current context, which helps with debugging and security.

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SQL SERVER - Get Permissions of My Username / Userlogin on Server / Database

SQL SERVER – Get Permissions of My Username / Userlogin on Server / Database

October 23, 2007
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server Security, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL System Table

Invited to review a big company’s schema, I wanted to know my own permissions without asking their DBA. fn_my_permissions shows them at server and database level.

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Server is configured for RPC.

SQL SERVER – 2005 – Fix : Error : Msg 7411, Level 16, State 1 Server is not configured for RPC

October 18, 2007
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Security

Msg 7411 says the server is not configured for RPC. A Jr. DBA I am training found the fix on his own: turn the RPC option from False to True.

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SQL SERVER - 2005 - SQL Server Surface Area Configuration Tool Examples and Explanation

SQL SERVER – 2005 – SQL Server Surface Area Configuration Tool Examples and Explanation

October 13, 2007
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Server Security, SQL Utility

SQL Server 2005 ships with risky features off. The Surface Area Configuration tool turns them on or off, and here is what replaced it later.

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SQL SERVER - Frequency of SQL Server Reboot and Restart

SQL SERVER – Frequency of SQL Server Reboot and Restart

September 11, 2007
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Database, DBA, SQL Server Security

How often should you do a SQL Server reboot? From my experience there is no need, though our network team reboots all our servers every 15 days.

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Two plain brass keys with different teeth beside a small wooden lock block on a table.

Orphaned Users After a Restore, and How to Fix Them

August 2, 2007
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, Database, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

Find orphaned users after a SQL Server restore, compare user and login SIDs, and repair the intended mapping with ALTER USER.

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