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“Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers”

“Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers”

by Mike Walsh | Jun 10, 2017 | SQL Server DBA, Straight Up SQL Server Tips, Syndicate

My headline is borrowed from a headline on bleepingcomputer.com. This just happened to a Dutch hosting provider in 2017. You can read the article. Actually, you must read the article. If you didn’t here’s the basic gist: An administrator quits or was fired...
SQL Server Max Memory Best Practices

SQL Server Max Memory Best Practices

by Mike Walsh | Feb 8, 2017 | Straight Up SQL Server Tips

In this Straight Up SQL Server Tips series, we’re going back to basics. Many of these are findings in our SQL Server Health Checks or things I bump into on the forums and Q&A sites when I’m out answering questions. Today we’re talking a bit...
How To Manage The SQL Server Transaction Log File

How To Manage The SQL Server Transaction Log File

by Mike Walsh | Feb 4, 2017 | Straight Up SQL Server Tips

“Help! My SQL Server transaction log file has run out of space on my SQL Server!”, “Why is my SQL Server Log file so big?”, “How do I shrink my SQL LDF?” – I hear these questions all the time. I’ve been blogging since...
Optimize For Ad Hoc Workloads – Enable or not?

Optimize For Ad Hoc Workloads – Enable or not?

by Mike Walsh | Jan 30, 2017 | Straight Up SQL Server Tips, Syndicate

With today’s Straight Up SQL Server tip, I want to talk about a setting I have so far only ever recommended to enable: Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads. Rather than just make a suggestion, I want to keep in the spirit of the tips for beginner approach to the series...
SQL Server Corruption – Read Before it Happens

SQL Server Corruption – Read Before it Happens

by Mike Walsh | Jan 24, 2017 | Straight Up SQL Server Tips, Syndicate

SQL Server Corruption is a rather complex topic. As a consultant, I’ve been called in many times to help a client suffering from SQL Server corruption in some form or another. As a forum post answerer I’ve helped some pretty sad situations and tried to...
DBA Questions To Ask A Vendor

DBA Questions To Ask A Vendor

by Mike Walsh | Jan 17, 2017 | Best Practices, Straight Up SQL Server Tips, Syndicate

Do you buy software from independent software vendors? Does it run on SQL Server? Are you responsible for supporting that software? Here are some questions that you can ask a software vendor about the way they use SQL Server. It’s best to ask these questions...
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