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''SQL Server Security & Compliance'' Sponsored by Idera:SQL Server security and compliance go hand in hand.  With the changes in legislation and new requirements to ensure that database platforms such as SQL Server are secure we will take a look at how to secure your SQL Server environment from the bottom up as well as look at ways to ...

Have you ever asked this question about how do I identify the queries that worth tuning? The simple answer it is neither easy or hard to obtain such information if you have managed your SQL Server by deploying industry best practices (wherever possible). Then it comes what kind of practice you should deploy in order to obtain the ...

Until recently I have just used Dedicated Administrator Console (DAC) to connect just to test whether the connection will be successful. You may be aware that only administrator will be able to access a running instance of SQL Server Database Engine to troubleshoot problems on the server—even when the server is unresponsive to other client ...

As most of blogs in this section travels through usage of Dynamic Management Views (DMV) & Dynamic Management Functions (DMF) I have had an email asking What is DMV & DMF and how to find list of them from a SQL Server instance. The internal mechanism of DMV is totally relies on calls to a set of Dynamic Link Libraries that ...