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Allowing effective developer access to SQL Server

By Allen Kinsel, 4 months and 12 days ago

When creating a new application, after going through the entire business analysis & requirements gathering process, normally you wind up with a datamodel that includes many tables and relationships.  By this time, depending on the size of the datamodel/system there has been considerable amounts of time invested on all sides.  We need a way of preserving this investment of time while still allowing developers to do their thing!

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Most shops have policies in place for what level of access developers can have in each environment.  In many places I've seen, developers are allowed DBO access in development, and some lesser access in the higher environments (read only usually).

After you've deployed the datamodel to the physical database in a development environment, before you grant the developer group dbo access consider all of the time/effort that has been spent making the datamodel what it is.  In order to allow the developers to do their jobs but not allow them to modify the actual table/schema layout you can grant a combinations of privileges.

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PASS Program Update #3

By Allen Kinsel, 4 months and 19 days ago

Its been a while since I wrote an update about whats been happening in the PASS Program Committee.  I just havent had time to write about it with all of the work thats going on in addition to my regular day job.  Hopefully Ill have time now to do a better job at this!

The annual content survey was sent out and the results are in, I'd like to go on record now and say, Im not a BI user/admin/developer.  We took the BI questions from last year's survey (which were obviously from 2008).  Unfortunately, while going through them and updating the questions I didnt reach out to a BI person and get a gut check for the BI questions.  So we wound up with some out of date info in that section.  I swear we like BI @ PASS, I just goofed, there's not some secret conspiracy, and YES to the 1 of you who asked, I do read all of the comments .  The good news, for those that asked, the survey results will be released as soon as we can get them collated and readable (any day now)  **UPDATE** The survey responses are here there are definitely some very interesting tidbits to be mined from this.

We are making progress in working on several projects, from redoing the speaker resources, to developing a new system to house the speaker evaluation data.  As with all things volunteer driven, these tasks are taking time but thats not unexpected.It has to be better than this

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Runaway System Cache Increase Kills SQL

By Allen Kinsel, 4 months and 20 days ago

Ran into this a while back, and we finally found a root cause so, I thought Id put it out here in hopes that it saves at least 1 person the amount of head bashing I had with it

Environment

Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 w/32GB RAM

SQL Server 2005 standard ed SP3 64bit active/passive cluster

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April Houston SQL Server Users group meeting

By Allen Kinsel, 4 months and 28 days ago

In Houston?  Hungry for lunch?  Want to learn SQL Server from an expert?  Head over to the Microsoft office and learn the top SQL mistakes and how to avoid them from Kevin Kline

Not in Houston?  or hungry?  there's always the live meeting option!

Here are the details from the HASSUG Site:

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  • Allowing effective developer access to SQL Server:
    • Karen Lopez: Another approach I use: Be generous in granting privileges in the DEV database (but still lock down the server environment), but don't let Devs promote any DDL to the next environment. Only the DBAs can deliver/apply DDL to the next (usually QA) environment. So if the devs modify their tables/columns without the architect...
  • PASS Summit Community Choice Session results revealed:
    • Andy Warren: Allen, nice job on this. Great to see the community get a chance to participate in building the program and share in the excitement of the upcoming Summit. Andy
  • Community Choice Sessions at the PASS Summit 2010:
    • Allen Kinsel: Thanks, We hope that this will be a good test of community selections, and hope to expand it a bit in the future
    • robert cook: glad you decided to keep blogging and gracias to you and your amigos for giving an opportunity to the sql community for direct involvement with session choices
  • Sql Server and SSPI handshake failed error hell:
    • Robert L Davis: I agree about the reboot. That's why I check SPN's before DC/Kerberos errors. An SPN can be fixed without rebooting, but if the issue is DC connection and no one can log in to the SQL Server, you're down anyway so a reboot shouldn't be out of the question. The problem with having a...
    • Allen Kinsel: I guess should have worded that a little differently, in my experience in a lot of environments kerberos isnt used since its not configured, so it always falls back to NTLM, with only NTLM and no Kerberos in the result list, its usually safe to say that SPN's arent the issue. I...

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