SQL RNNR

“What the heck is an endpoint?” Well, that is a good question. An endpoint in the simplest form is a connection or point of entry into SQL server.

With the ability to create content delivery schedules, or to subscribe to report content delivery, it becomes very important to also know when the various reports are scheduled to be delivered.

With the ability to create content delivery schedules, or to subscribe to report content delivery, this imposes a requirement to also know when the various reports are scheduled to be delivered.

Reporting Services is a pretty feature rich tool for delivering reports to various consumers. Unfortunately, the scheduling capability within SSRS is fairly weak.

Do you fear the coming turbulence of the Cloud uprising? I think the cloud is a good thing for the data professional, when done right.

It is very important to understand who has what level of access within the server and databases on that server. Sometimes we see users being granted server or database access through the fixed roles available in SQL Server. How exactly do you know what permissions those individuals have via role membership? This article will help to reveal the permissions granted to the various roles and maybe a gotcha or two.

A fundamental component of SQL Server is the security layer. This article covers three common security misconfigurations in SQL Server.

In this article I will only be discussing the AX product and an easy tweak to make troubleshooting that product much easier from the perspective of the database administrator. This tweak is to enable the context info from within the administration console.

While creating database users, it is possible to encounter an invalid character error message. This article will help clarify the error message.

It is quite common to be required to investigate performance issues on the server. With this, it is occasionally necessary to be able to interpret an obfuscated job name. Learn how to do that in this article.

I found your post coincidentally, nice solution :-) And have a simple way to format the output…

TheTARDIS should be blue not red. :) https://goo.gl/2Fh7EU

Actually, this method relies explicitly on a buggy cursor. SP_MSFOREACHDB comes with inconsistencies and a few bugs. The heart of…

Michael, Thanks for the excellent feedback. I am glad somebody took this and adapted it to posh. I will have…

Thanks for the feedback.

Hi, I've tried the version provided for schema support, but it never worked in my environment.…

Jason, great job on your post. It started me down the path of making a truly dynamic xel shredding and…

There is a simpler way without the need for cursors. DECLARE @a TABLE (…

Thanks and you are welcome!

I will add a followup concerning sp_helprotect. Thanks for the feedback.