Audit Database Offline Events

Knowing when an event occurred within the database environment is a very important thing. Being able to act quickly when certain events occur is equally as important. Sometimes, we may not find out about an event for a few days or weeks and then we are asked to figure out the who, when, why and how of the event. Hopefully there was enough foresight in place to plan for such a request to travel back in time.

T-SQL Tuesday #104: Just Can’t Cut That Cord

We all have our favorite scripts, tools or utilities. Those are the things that help make our jobs easier. In this article, I share with you a poor mans audit solution to help catch unwanted permissions changes.

A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale

If you truncate a table, you cannot undo the action like you can with a delete.  What is the difference between the two methods to remove data from a table?