Security issues when using aliased users in SQL Server
This tip shows you how to find security holes when aliased users are setup in your databases and also that this feature will be deprecated in SQL Server 2008.
2009-02-09
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Articles
SQL Server CLR function to concatenate values in a column
If a column is normalized, but the user really wants to see the values as a short comma separated list, how can I write a query that produces the list? Concatenating the values in a column would be pretty easy if SQL Server had a concatenate aggregate function, which it doesn't. What's more, for efficiency sake it's important to write the reporting queries without using cursors.
2009-02-09
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Trust
Trust is a big part of any DBA's job. But it seems that many people in society trust each other less and less all the time. Steve Jones has a few comments on this important subject.
2009-02-09
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Trust
Trust is a big part of any DBA's job. But it seems that many people in society trust each other less and less all the time. Steve Jones has a few comments on this important subject.
2009-02-09
67 reads
Trust
Trust is a big part of any DBA's job. But it seems that many people in society trust each other less and less all the time. Steve Jones has a few comments on this important subject.
2009-02-09
89 reads
How To Retrieve Excel Schema Information Using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2005
How can we determine the sheet names in our SSIS package and process this variable number of sheets?
2009-02-06
4,516 reads
New data profiling tools in SQL Server 2008
New data-profiling tools native to SQL Server 2008 Integration Services such as the Data Profiling task and the Data Profiler Viewer help manage a business intelligence strategy.
2009-02-06
3,213 reads
Who Do We Choose to Follow?
Think about your career and the managers, and potentially leaders, that you’ve had in your life. Think about life in general and who do you admire, who have you modeled yourself after or who you wanted to follow in sports, in a hobby, in life, etc.
2009-02-06
1,353 reads
Mining Model Viewers - SQL School Video
In this video MVP Brian Knight explains how you can use the model viewers to see how the data mining task will process your data.
2009-02-05
2,057 reads
All the Aggregates you crave with Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008
As reporting requirements increase, it seems that aggregate functionalities have thankfully risen to the occasion concurrently. To maintain its competitive edge as Staples Canada’s best vendor, BaldGorilla, where I’m currently consulting, has been able...
2009-02-05
2,050 reads
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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