Agent Properties
SQL Server Agent has many operational properties that can be critical for troubleshooting various issues. Many of these properties are surfaced via GUI properties pages, and as such can be hard to compare across many…
List Failed SQL Server Agent Jobs, with Restart Command
Managing a large number of SQL Server instances, with many SQL Server Agent jobs on each instance, can provide a large amount of tedious work when many jobs fail simultaneously. For instance, if you run…
Disabled Active Directory Accounts in T-SQL
SQL Server, by default, uses Windows Authentication to provide integrated Active Directory authentication to users. This makes it extremely easy to setup new users; you only need to know the Active Directory account name, or…
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…
Finding Host Names for Failed login attempts!
The Intro If you manage a lot of SQL Server instances, you likely run into failed login attempts quite often. Perhaps you’re even wondering what client machine is causing all those failures. Since most environments…
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…