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I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is off. Who wants to wait until off-hours to run scripts if you could devise a way…
Restoring a SQL Server backup in a Docker container is quite easy. To begin with, you will need persistent storage on your Docker container to follow this blog post. To get that setup, you can follow the instructions in this blog post. I found that…
This all started because I wanted to follow Tracy’s directions on setting up Ola for index maintenance in Runbooks. I couldn’t set up the automation account permissions unless I was logged in with Azure Active Directory – Univeral with MFA. When I Googled, I didn’t…
Information security and privacy are key in today’s data-driven world. Sensitive data needs to be protected from unauthorized access. With column masking in SQL Server and Azure SQL, you can conceal sensitive data, allowing only authorized users to see it. Understanding Column Masking Column masking…
This is an easy way to retain the data and settings you create and change on your SQL Server Docker instance. There’s a lot of talk about attaching databases after creating your Docker container. I found that you can mount the volumes that SQL Server…
I got a call saying the database server is inaccessible because tempdb is full. I get online and try to connect because I want to see the error for myself. Even when someone gives me a screenshot; I can’t help myself, I want to see…
I was working on two publisher contracts at the same time. I highly recommend never doing that. One is done, though, and it’s officially published as of September 2022. Check out my database auditing book published with Apress! https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Database-Auditing-Microsoft-Server/dp/1484286332 More to come (hopefully soon) on…
Why doesn’t SQL Server automatically check for the Group –> Object type when you are adding perms via SSMS? This hangs me up almost every time. I think “omg where is the group, why isn’t it there?” and then I remember, oh yeah, I gotta…
published on SQL Server Central https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/standards-matter At first, this was going to be a technical article about an index maintenance horror story. I received an off-hours page. The index maintenance job was running for a long time on a big table. I have an agent…
We have a fair number of pretty large databases, and I was having a hard time scheduling full integrity checks to run at least once a week. For a long time, I only ran physical_only with my fingers crossed, but finally, I got a new…