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Scenario A cluster includes two or more physical servers, called nodes; identical configuration is recommended. One is identified as the active node, on which a SQL Server instance is running the production workload, and the other is a passive node, on which SQL Server is…
Scenario You have got the SQL database engine installed but no SSMS installed on it. In this scenario how you will connect to the target database engine and create a login to allow a connection or how will you connect…
1. Database Owner: ‘sa’ As per my understanding, the Database Owner always should be ‘sa’. We can change ‘sa’ login name as per our organization standard login available in SQL security. While creating a database ‘sa’ should be assigned as…
Introduction In SQL Server, managing user access and permissions is crucial for maintaining the security and integrity of a database. Often, there is a need to retrieve a list of user names while excluding certain system roles. In this blog…
Introduction How to run a SQL query using command prompt without SQL SSMS Open CMD from Run and run the below command (CMD) to connect with Database engine. sqlcmd -S WIN-81L2H4SUHDH\MSSQLSERVER,14331 **WIN-81L2H4SUHDH\MSSQLSERVER –> This should be FQDN** Then you can…
Find IP and Port using SQL SSMS Find IP and Port of a SQL Server from a client machine. The script will not provide all the information if you are connected to the host/local machine of the SQL server. It…
How to find out user activity on database without any particular Auditing Sometime you may need to find out who ran some script or who is accessing the database or who made some modification or deleted some data or updated…
Apply latest service pack to standalone SQL Server We have given a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (RTM) – 13.0.1601.5 (X64) Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 6.3 (Build 9600:) and We need to apply the latest SP…
Scenario Sometimes you need to gather the SQL instance details in a proper format such as Server Name, Instance, Service account name. Today I am sharing a script that will give you the SQL instance details in Single query. Query…
Scenario You often get complained that user is not able to connect to SQL server or Application is not able to connect to SQL for some reason. There might be any of the below reasons for which the user/application is…