Good read – SQL related articles, l will post more as l find them:
SQLMint
PASS Summit 2015 is the world’s largest conference for SQL Server and BI professionals.
Useful links/resources on pulling AD data through SQL Server:
On a server running SQL 2014 SSIS with SSISDB configured, one of the SQL Agent jobs configured to run using a proxy account kept failing with the error below.
Message
Unable to start execution of step 1 (reason: JobOwner domain\domainuser
doesn‘t have permissions to use proxy 1 for subsystem SSIS). The step failed.
Solution that worked for me in my situation.
Query your proxys and see if that proxy is disabled. If so, enable it.
SELECT * FROM msdb.dbo.sysproxies
USE msdb ;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_update_proxy
@proxy_name = ‘MyProxyUSerUser’,
@enabled = 1;
GO
Right clicking on a SQL server database using SQL Server Management Studio, click tasks, copy database and follow the wizard.
Below are major screenshots for opening up the primary firewall ports, using the inbound rules node of the windows firewall with advanced security node, in order to achieving this.
Transferring logins and passwords between separate SQL Server instances eg SVR1\DEV to SVR1\DEV2 can be done by scripting out the encrypted passwords using the stored procedures sp_hexadecimal and sp_help_revlogin which can be found by following this detailed link by clicking here.
“A contained database is a database that is isolated from other databases and from the instance of SQL Server that hosts the database. SQL Server 2014 helps user to isolate their database from the instance in 4 ways.
MSDN Source reference – click here
T-SQL Code
EXEC sys.sp_configure N’contained database authentication’, N’1′
GO
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
USE [master]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDemoDB] SET CONTAINMENT = PARTIAL WITH NO_WAIT
GO
Below are reference links to Microsoft documentation web pages listing deprecated database features from SQL 2005 to SQL 2014….
2005 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729(v=sql.90).aspx
2008 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729(v=sql.100).aspx
2012 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729(v=sql.110).aspx
2014 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729(v=sql.120).aspx
Error message [while running a stored procedure designed to restore multiple databases from a given drive location]:
Execution of user code in the .NET Framework is disabled. Enable “clr enabled” configuration option.
Solution [execute]:
sp_configure ‘clr enabled’, 1
go
reconfigure
go