Stéphane Haby

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 1

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 00:30 am for us… It’s a little bit early but when we like our work and like to learn, we stay up with plaisir. My schedule for the day:(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit Pre-con 2022

Thanks to dbi services to let me the opportunity to follow this week and next week, the Data Platform Virtual Summit beginning with the Pre-con. I subscribe the session of Guy Glantser about(…)

SQL Server 2022 security: Do you know Ledger?

You probably hear or view that on the security point of view, the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2022, has a feature named Ledger. It’s already used in Azure but what is Ledger? In 2(…)

SQL Server Security: Check if the guest is active on all user-databases through the CMS

Today, a customer asks me to have look on each SQL Server instance to control if the user-database Guest is active or not. The easiest way is to go through the CMS (Central Management Servers) with a query but(…)

SQL Server: Last duration for all SQL Server jobs in TIME format from HHmmss to HH:mm:ss

For a customer, I want to see all last duration for a job and have a good format for it. The query to do it is very simple (at the beginning…) but when I try to have a better(…)

SQL Server: msdb too big with the table dbo.sysmaintplan_logdetail

Today, I was by a new customer and the I see that the msdb data file was over 4GB. A little too big… To see which table are so big, in SSMS, I select the msdb database, right-click, go in(…)

SQL Server: Cannot execute as the database principal “dbo” does not exist

By a customer this month, I see a very big big ErrorLog file (more than 1,5GB). When I open the file, every 5 seconds, the following message is added: The activated proc ‘[dbo].[IdentityServerNotificationCleanup]’ running on queue ‘<database>.dbo.IdentityServerNotificationsQueue’(…)

SQL Server: how to have the number of core-based licenses used on my environment?

This week, a customer asks me to find out how many SQL Server Standard licenses are used in their environment. The licensing is core based and to not be used for Sserver + Cals licenses. To have an idea,(…)

How to find the TLS used for the SQL Server connection

For a customer, I do some research to find which TLS is used on the SQL Server environment. The only way is to create an Extended Event. A big limitation is that the event used is only available on SQL(…)

How to view and change SQL Server Agent properties with T-SQL queries

Few days ago, after a reboot, we had this warning on the Agent Error Logs on many servers: Warning [396] An idle CPU condition has not been defined – OnIdle job schedules will have no effect(…)