Enable Kerberos Authentication without rebooting SQL Server
What is this Kerberos thing, anyway?! Kerberos Authentication1 allows SQL Server to impersonate Active Directory users to other services via double-hop-authentication. This is commonly used to provide access to data through a web-site via Windows…
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…
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…
