Jordan BoichJordan Boich

Jordan’s passion falls in line with performance tuning. Whether it be a single slow query, or an entire SQL Server, Jordan loves jumping into the fire to make any environment run faster and more efficiently.

Accelerated Database Recovery in SQL Server 2025

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Accelerated Database Recovery in SQL Server 2025

Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) was introduced in SQL Server 2019. Its main purpose is to allow for faster database recovery in the event of a crash or unexpected shutdown. Traditionally, the database engine handles crash recovery through a series of phases—analysis, redo, and undo—which can be inefficient and slow, especially when dealing with long-running transactions. … Read more

Managing Orphaned Users in SQL Server with sp_FindOrphanedUser

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sp_FindOrphanedUser

Addressing orphaned users is an important piece of SQL Server security management. When left unchecked, you can accumulate an overwhelming number of users that exist in a database but do not have a correlating login in the master database, thus preventing access to the server or the database at all. There are dbatools PowerShell modules … Read more