Find out when/who dropped an object without auditing
If your environment doesn’t have any kind of auditing and you need to find since when an object was dropped.
Category: database
Useful transactional replication stored procedure
The scenario is when your publication settings has the option immediate_sync configured as false (means if you run the Snapshot
Method to update LOB data with minimal log
Use the .WRITE (expression, @Offset,@Length) clause to perform a partial or full update of varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) data types. For example, a partial update of
How to enable stretch database
After the tip https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/5526/how-to-setup-and-use-a-sql-server-stretch-database/ I made a video to show step by step how to enable stretch database.
Using SQL Operations Studio Agent
SQL Operations Studio Agent is visual way to see, edit and create SQL Server jobs and everybody was asking this
Troubleshooting Transactional Replication – part 1
The common way to replicate data and objects from one server to another is using transactional replication. As you know, SQL Server processes
How update works in transactional replication?
In a post about how update works I showed what happened when run an update with the same values. SQL Server
Database migration methods
When thinking about migration the most common issue is downtime. There are some methods that require downtime like backup/restore or
SqlPackage a tool to import/export SQL Server and Azure SQL DB
SqlPackage is a command-line utility that you can use for exporting and importing operations in both on-premises SQL Server databases
SQL Operations Studio Dashboards
SQL Operations Studio is a free tool that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, for managing SQL Server databases. I
