Category: General

• How to GRANT Permissions in T-SQL

  

  2014-01-24 - General, Security

  The T-SQL GRANT statement is a surprisingly complex statement that can be used to control fine grained permissions. In its basic form is has three sections that answer the questions What?, Where? and Who?. Read on to get all the details.

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• How to identify the SQL Server Service Account in T-SQL

  

  2014-01-23 - General, Security

  In SP1 for SQL 2008R2 a new DMV was introduced: sys.dm_server_service. It provides information about SQL related services including the service account name. Read on to get all the details.

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• ORIGINAL_LOGIN() – How to identify the Original Login Name

  

  2014-01-22 - General, Security

  ORIGINAL_LOGIN() is a SQL Server function that returns the original login name that was used to make the connection to the instance. Read on to get all the details.

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• Log Reuse Waits Explained: LOG_SCAN

  

  2014-01-21 - General, Log Reuse Wait, Series, Transaction Log

  Is your database log file growing out of bound and reporting LOG_SCAN as reason? Read on to find out what that means and what you can do about it.

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• Log Reuse Waits Explained: DATABASE_SNAPSHOT_CREATION

  

  2014-01-20 - General, Log Reuse Wait, Series, Transaction Log

  Is your database log file growing out of bound and reporting DATABASE_SNAPSHOT_CREATION as reason? Read on to find out what that means and what you can do about it.

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