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Instant file initialization
When you create (or grow) the size of a database file, SQL Server will initialize the allocated space on the disk, i.e. fill it with zeroes. If you’re adding a large amount of space to your database...
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The SQL Server security model, part 2: securables
Continuing on last week’s post on security principals, this week’s installment in the series on SQL Server security takes a look at securables. Securables Securables is a collective term for everything...
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The SQL Server security model, part 3: permissions
This is the third installment in a series on assigning SQL Server permissions. In the previous posts, we’ve looked at security principals (the users and groups that carry the permissions) as well as...
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Effective permissions on SQL Server
SQL Server Management Studio allows you to view effective permissions on an object, but it’s limited in a few important respects. To work around some of those limitations, I’ve built a stored procedure...
View ArticleLegacy apps that don’t believe in schemas
Inspired by an actual customer scenario: what if you have a legacy app that doesn’t schema-prefix its database objects, but you want it to work with a specific assigned schema? There’s a quick and easy...
View ArticleAn alternative to data masking
Dynamic data masking is a neat new feature in recent SQL Server versions that allows you to protect sensitive information from non-privileged users by masking it. But using a brute-force guessing...
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