Reasons not to grant db_owner DBO can do some nasty stuff:-  CHANGE RECOVERY MODEL  BACKUP DATABASE  ALTER ANY SYMMETRIC KEY TURN ON/OFF AUTOSHRINK  ADD FILE AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS DROP DATABASE SET OFFLINE   If you must create database objects, view showplans/dynamic tables or more but do not want to give away ‘the keys to the […] Read more

Audience: Managers/Non-database technical staff/RDBMS (database server) Beginners. Sometimes an application can misbehave.  It is normal for processes inside an RDBMS system to occasionally get blocked by another process which is currently updating data, and this normally goes unnoticed as it is usually short-lived and clears once the update activity finishes and the locks are released.  However, sometimes […] Read more

Detailed notes on reviewing existing  DBCCDB for use with ‘check storage’ DBCCDB review First, find out what ASE recommends you set the minimum values to using > sp_plan_dbccdb <dbname> Then, we work through these values and we pay attention to the settings below. check size of dbccdb check size of dbccdb_cache check scan ws value […] Read more

If you want to backup your SQL Server databases you normally use the Maintenance Plan Wizard to generate an automated job to do just that. But what if you want to backup across multiple files to improve the backup performance ( on multi CPU servers) AND still included an automatically generated date/time stamp within the […] Read more