Welcome to April at Stedman Solutions, LLC! This month, we’re excited to announce that April is JOINS month, where all our promotions and activities will revolve around the fundamental concept of JOINs in SQL Server. Whether you’re a seasoned SQL professional or just starting out on your database journey, this is the perfect time to dive deeper into the power …

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Welcome to April at Stedman Solutions, LLC! This month, we’re excited to announce that April is JOINS month, where all our promotions and activities will revolve around the fundamental concept of JOINs in SQL Server. Whether you’re a seasoned SQL professional or just starting out on your database journey, this is the perfect time to dive deeper into the power …

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Today Microsoft released a new update for SQL Server. SQL Server 2019 CU25 for 2019 (15.0.4355.3 – February 2024) CU25 + GDR (15.0.4360.2 – April 2024) 2024-04-09 Here are the latest updates for each version of SQL Server. SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Download links: SP3 (10.50.6000.34 – September 2014) SP2 (10.50.4000.0 – July 2012)None   SQL Server 2022 RTM Download links: NoneCU12 …

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Securing SQL Server Against Ransomware: The Role of Immutable Backups Securing SQL Server Against Ransomware: The Role of Immutable Backups In the digital age, data is arguably an organization’s most valuable asset. For those of us who have been in the trenches with SQL Server since the early ’90s, the evolution of data management and security has been both fascinating …

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In SQL Server, you can create logins using Windows local groups as a way to manage access to the database server. This means that you can add users to a Windows local group and then create a SQL Server login using that group. The users who are members of the group will then be able to connect to the database …

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Out of all of the customers we have running our daily monitoring here are the versions of SQL Server that are being run. All the data is sanitized, so there is no private client information to expose here. What is this service? With this service we detect and alert you of any issues that arise on your SQL Server. Then …

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SQL Server’s DBCC IND command is an undocumented database console command that is used to display the allocation and deallocation status of the data pages in a table or index. This command is not officially supported by Microsoft and is not intended for general use. To use the DBCC IND command, you must first connect to your SQL Server instance …

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Welcome to April at Stedman Solutions, LLC! This month, we’re excited to announce that April is JOINS month, where all our promotions and activities will revolve around the fundamental concept of JOINs in SQL Server. Whether you’re a seasoned SQL professional or just starting out on your database journey, this is the perfect time to dive deeper into the power …

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