Abstract: Database forensics is becoming more important for investigators with the increased use of the information system. Although various database forensic methods such as log analysis and ...

Your server logs are like a diary that Google can’t stop writing in. Every crawl, every page request, every bot visit gets recorded in meticulous detail. Yet most people running SEO services for UK ...

You can set this up to run from a SQL Server Agent Job and setup your own notification process to alert you about deadlocks as you see fit. I also want to point out that I am aware of a couple of ...

This May Patch Tuesday release is very much a “back-to-basics” update with just 78 patches for Microsoft Windows, Office, Visual Studio, and .NET. Notably, Microsoft has not released any patches for ...

This article covers how to monitor [!INCLUDE [ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] transaction log size, shrink the transaction log, add to or enlarge a ...

Ideal for anyone looking to implement log shipping or needing a reliable process for database recovery from backups. Especially beneficial for environments with a large number of databases or ...

Today is Microsoft's February 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 73 flaws and two actively exploited zero-days. This Patch Tuesday fixes five critical vulnerabilities, including ...

Yesterday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, we announced that SQL Server 2019 is now in preview and that SQL Server 2019 will include Apache Spark and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for ...

We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The mssql-scripter tool enables developers, DBAs, and sysadmins to generate CREATE and INSERT T ...

Maintenance Plans are pretty new to me, since my previous DBA jobs would just do any database maintenance or backups through scripts and jobs created by the team. Not that Maintenance Plans are bad, ...