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Here at gethynellis.com we offer a range of SQL Server consulting and SQL Server training services to help you manage and maintain your SQL Server environment.
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SQL Server Consulting

  • SQL Server Health Checks – We’ll help you get an understanding of how your SQL Server is setup and configured. We’ll then make some recommendations/suggestions on changes that would help improve the running of your SQL Server and databases, be it disaster recovery, security or performance.
  • Performance Tuning Services – SQL Server database slow? We can help you make your SQL Servers databases run faster.
  • Version Migration - Migrate those old SQL Server 2000 (we won't tell if you don't) SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012 instances up to SQL Server 2014/2016 /2017
  • SQL Server Architecture – We will help you design a SQL Server solutions that meet your business needs
  • We can help you setup SQL Server to run successfully on a virtual platform. You have VMWare or Hyper-V. You want to run SQL Server on them. We can help
  • SQL Server in the Cloud - choosing the right platform, the right service model (PaaS IaaS – If these mean nothing to you we’ll explain in simple English)  we'll help you make an informed decision about what cloud services you buy.
For more information please visit our consulting page


If we can help get in touch 01212 889670 (or 0044 121 2889670 from outside the UK)

SQL Server Training

We can also provide training in SQL Server using the Microsoft Official Curriculum - Getting your staff up to speed on SQL Server is something we can help with:

  • SQL Server DBA Training
  • Microsoft Azure Training
  • Business Intelligence training

For more information visit our training page.

If we can help get in touch 01212 889670 (or 0044 121 2889670 from outside the UK)

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This post is written by David Postlethwaite
If you are using SQL Server 2012 you will probably have noticed that the default account for the SQL services has changed from that used in previous versions. With SQL 2005 and 2008 the default account for SQL service and SQL Agent service was “NT Authority\System”. This is one the built in accounts on a Windows machine, managed by the machine and selectable from a dedicated dropdown list

The Network Service account was introduced in Windows 2003 as an alternative to using the LocalSystem account, which has full local system privileges on the local machine, a major security concern.
The Network Service has limited local privileges easing these security concerns but when many services on a machine use the Network Service account it becomes harder to track which service is actually accessing resources and performing actions, because all the services are using the one Network Service account.
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By David Postlethwaite

Always Encrypted is new features in SQL Server 2016 and it is also available in Azure SQL Database. Here you can encrypt columns in a table with a master key and a certificate so that they will appear as encrypted strings to those who don’t have the required certificate installed on their pc.
Once the certificate is installed on the computer then the unencrypted data can then be seen as normal.

The data passes from database to your application as the encrypted value, only the application with the correct certificate can unencrypt the data so it is secure across the wire. This will go some way to resolving the concern of people worried about putting their sensitive data on a shared server in the cloud such as Microsoft Azure and accessing the data across the Internet.

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The calling application (including SSMS) must also hav…
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How to Setup Kerberos Correctly

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David was in Copenhagen this weekend delivering his Kerberos talk Taming the Beast: Kerberos for the SQL DBA to SQL Saturday Denmark. I have had a quick chat with him via email since he got back and he said he had a great time. The event was very well attended with 280+ attendees and his talk was well attended.

I think David is planning submitting a few sessions to SQL Saturday events in Europe in the next few months so look out for him there and we'll keep you posted as to his whereabouts when schedules get finalised later in the year.

David has pre-recorded his Kerberos talk. You can watch on you tube and I have also embedded it in this post if you want to see what his kerberos talk  covers...



If we can help you with a SQL Sever problem visit our SQL Server Consulting page or contact us
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