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How Many Times Will You Change a Password?
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. If you create a login and the user can’t log in, how many times will you change the password? … Continue reading
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The Case for Upgrading
I heard from a member of the community that’s still on SQL Server 2005 recently. Yes, 2005. That’s an old, unsupported version, but they’ve got some Access/VBA apps that work well and aren’t worth investing a lot of development effort … Continue reading
Adjusting Model
In July the T-SQL Tuesday theme was defaults. There were lots of posts about various items, but I found one by Kevin Kline interesting. Kevin noted that the settings for model are not necessarily what many of us would want in … Continue reading
The Log Chain
I ran across a question recently from someone that received a similar message to the one showed in this image: In this case, the log chain is broken. I’ve received this message, usually from a script that is automatically restoring … Continue reading
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