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2022

SQL Server
“Access denied” when attaching a database via SSMS

by Vlad Drumea September 29, 2022

by Vlad Drumea September 29, 2022 0 comments 3 minutes read

This post outlines a few ways to fix the access denied error you might encounter when attaching a database via SSMS in certain conditions. Situations when I ran into this …

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Security SQL Server
Cracking SQL Server login passwords offline

by Vlad Drumea September 21, 2022

by Vlad Drumea September 21, 2022 0 comments 4 minutes read

Have you ever wanted to do a password audit on the SQL logins that applications and developers use to connect to the instances that you manage? Offline password cracking is …

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PowerShell Scripts SQL Server
PSBlitz – Easily outputs SQL Server diagnostics data

by Vlad Drumea September 15, 2022

by Vlad Drumea September 15, 2022 10 comments 5 minutes read

PSBlitz is a PowerShell script that outputs SQL Server health and performance diagnostics data to Excel and saves execution plans and deadlock graphs as .sqlplan and .xdl files. Introduction Since …

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Recovery SQL Server
Recovering master database with corrupted t-log and no backups

by Vlad Drumea August 31, 2022

by Vlad Drumea August 31, 2022 0 comments 6 minutes read

You get a call about a database server that went down due to a power outage and now the instance won’t start up, and, for some reason, there are no …

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