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Monthly Archives: May 2011
How To Make Your Laptop 100x Faster
Simon Sabin had his own take on increasing laptop speed. He had some good ideas, but he inspired me to try to top his suggestions. Here’s what I came up with: Anyone needing help, let me know. I can swing … Continue reading
Stalking the Bad Guys
Suppose you found some malicious code on your system. Maybe it’s a login that didn’t below at the sysadmin level, or maybe a stored procedure that might disable a trigger, make a change, and re-enable the trigger. What do you … Continue reading
Checking Permissions
Someone posted this query recently: select a.*,name, b.* from sys.database_principals a, sys.database_permissions b where permission_name = ‘INSERT’ and b.grantee_principal_id = a.principal_id That’s a little ugly, so let’s fix it: SELECT a.name, a.principal_id, a.is_fixed_role , a.default_schema_name , b.permission_name, b.permission_name … Continue reading
Working Long or Working Hard
Seth Godin has some very interesting things to say and often makes me think with his short posts on the world. I saw him speak a few years ago, enjoyed it, and while I don’t always agree with the way … Continue reading
Voice of the DBA 