Category Archives: Policy Based Management

Expiring Databases and Policy-Based Management

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Jorge Segarra 1 Comment

Today on Twitter my friend Jes “Run Forrest Run” Schultz Borland (Blog | Twitter) asked the Community “How do you clean up your dev environments? Let DBs sit out there forever? Delete after X months? Other? This seemed like an … Continue reading →

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Make It Simple With Policy-Based Management

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Jorge Segarra Leave a comment

At work recently, I explained to a coworker the reasons and benefits of having databases in Simple mode in your development environment. Funnily enough, a few hours later, I see my friend Andie Letourneau (Blog | Twitter) posted a blog … Continue reading →

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SQL Server Denali CTP3: Policy Based Management

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Jorge Segarra 1 Comment

Whether you know it or not, Policy-Based Management is an integral part of the new release of SQL Server “Denali”. Did you know that the HADR feature actually leverages PBM for checks? Yup, that’s right folks. If you’re an administrator … Continue reading →

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Policy-Based Management and Local Password Policy

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Jorge Segarra Leave a comment

This post is based on an interesting question/situation that was posted over at ASKSSC.com today. The user asked how to create a policy condition that enforces local sql accounts to adhere to password expiration policies. First off, to create the … Continue reading →

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Find Table Heaps Using Policy-Based Management

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Jorge Segarra 2 Comments

This is just a quick post in regards to a conversation I just had via Twitter. If you don’t already use Twitter, the SQL Community has setup a great resource on there using the hashtag of #sqlhelp. Today a conversation … Continue reading →

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