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Hidden Risks in SQL Agent Job Logging: How Retry and Output Settings Can Compromise Your Logs

In many SQL Server environments, DBAs configure SQL Agent jobs with retry attempts (which is a smart move to handle transient issues gracefully). But with it comes a hidden pitfall that often goes unnoticed:

Retry-enabled job steps can silently overwrite logs.

And improper output file settings can cause runaway file growth.

The culprit? Improper use of append settings and missing time-based tokens in output file paths.

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Incremental Integrity Check for Large Databases

Traditional database integrity checks in SQL Server can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, especially for large databases, even when using super cool tools like Ola Hallengren’s maintenance solution.

To address this challenge, I developed a TSQL script for performing incremental integrity checks, which significantly optimizes the process and reduces its impact on the server.

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Drop All Redundant Indexes In Every Database All At Once

Redundant indexes in SQL Server are a phenomenon that is more common than I’d like to admit. I see it in quite a lot of shops. Meaning, that there’s still a significant target audience for this blog post!

This article published by Brent Ozar is very informative about redundant/duplicate indexes, what they mean, why they’re bad, and what should be done with them.

Also, a few years ago, Guy Glantser published a post about dropping redundant indexes. It’s very useful for finding all redundant indexes within all tables in a specific database.

But what both of these articles are missing – is the ability to easily generate Drop/Disable commands for these redundant indexes.

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Resolved: Login failed for user NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON – Delegation Step-by-Step

Sometimes when trying to access a linked server, you’d get an error saying “Login failed for user NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON”. This happens because you’re connected using Windows authentication, and SQL Server fails to “forward” your credentials to the linked server.

Hopefully, with this blog post, I’ll provide you with an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide, which would help you resolve the issue the right way, without any workarounds.

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Compare SQL Server Instance Properties

A few years ago, I created a couple of T-SQL scripts that can be used for comparing instance-level and database-level properties between two HA/DR replicas. Originally, this supported comparing only two servers. But recently, following a fan request, I upgraded the script to support an unlimited number of servers that you can compare to each other.

So, I figured, if one person found this useful, there must be more out there that would need this, right?

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I got the Power: Remote Execution using Powershell and SQL Server

As part of my journey to get better at Powershell, I gave myself a task: Create a project utilizing Powershell at its core, to solve a complicated problem as elegantly as possible.

A complicated problem indeed presented itself: How to remotely control multiple computers without having to log into them? Make them perform any task that could possibly be needed? Control them from one central location? And make the solution as easily scalable as possible?

I present to you, the Framework for Remote Execution using Powershell and SQL Server. Or in short: FREPS. Hmm… Actually, I may have to work on that name. 🤔

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