Building a Security Philosophy
SQL Server trainer and expert DBA, Andy Warren, thinks that everyone should have a philosophy about security. He starts this installment in looking about how to assign administrative privileges.
2008-08-12
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SQL Server trainer and expert DBA, Andy Warren, thinks that everyone should have a philosophy about security. He starts this installment in looking about how to assign administrative privileges.
2008-08-12
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This paper presents an approach to the definition of function points within database-centric business information systems, the process of counting function points, .
2008-08-12
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Statistics update date is stored as metadata on the SQL instance, but after a great deal of research against the system tables and DMVs I realized that this information is not readily exposed to the DBA via any other method than the STATS_DATE() function or the SQL Server Management Studio graphical user interface (GUI).
2008-08-12
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System administrators have a lot of power and temptation to use it. Steve Jones talks about the need to resist temptation and the need for oversight.
2008-08-12
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System administrators have a lot of power and temptation to use it. Steve Jones talks about the need to resist temptation and the need for oversight.
2008-08-12
78 reads
System administrators have a lot of power and temptation to use it. Steve Jones talks about the need to resist temptation and the need for oversight.
2008-08-12
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This article describes an alternate use of CTEs for functional data processing.
2008-08-11
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Learn how to set up SQL Server Database Mail in SQL Server 2005. In this tip, you'll see how to configure Profiles and Accounts for sending mail.
2008-08-11
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Do you avoid certain SQL functionality because you have been told you should NEVER use it?
2008-08-11
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Do you avoid certain SQL functionality because you have been told you should NEVER use it?
2008-08-11
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A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers