Surface Area Configuration Audit

The Surface Area Setup Microsoft has built an incredible number of excellent features into SQL Server over the years, vastly increasing the surface area of possible vulnerabilities. Some of these features can be both a…

Script to delete a login and associated users from SQL Server

Occasionally, you might need to drop a single login from a SQL Server, however if that login has users in a lot of databases, it may be tedious to delete the associated user account from…

Log Backup Failures – Danger, Will Robinson!

For databases in Full Recovery Model, log backups should be taken at a frequency that ensures your recovery point objective can be met. So you schedule log backups to occur, setup email notifications so you…

Unreported SQL Server Agent Job Failures

SQL Server Agent provides an easy-to-configure framework for notifying DBAs when jobs fail to run for any reason. Unfortunately, there are circumstances where job failures may not result in SQL Server sending a notification. For…