Security was a major focus of SQL Server 2005 during its development, both in terms of making the product secure as well as enhancing the options. Security expert Brian Kelley brings us a look at how the paradigm of logins has changed and what you need to look for in SQL Server 2005.
2008-04-11 (first published: 2006-07-05)
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We are just getting started with PerformancePoint Server 2007 and trying to help our business users to develop their first scorecard. For those of you who are new to Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, PPS is a recent addition to the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offering.
2008-04-11
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This article shows how to implement an automatic sliding window in a partitioned table on Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
2008-04-11
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Everyone has a set of handy utilities and tools that they use with their SQL Server, but sometimes convincing an employer to purchase tools is hard. Longtime DBA David Bird brings us a list of the tools he likes to use and are FREE.
2008-04-10 (first published: 2007-05-24)
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An proposal about using simple server name resolution and INI files to make a DTS package portable.
2008-04-10
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Tracking your salary over time might be a fun, or not so fun, endeavor for a DBA. However should anyone else know what your trend is? Steve Jones asks the question this week.
2008-04-10
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Tracking your salary over time might be a fun, or not so fun, endeavor for a DBA. However should anyone else know what your trend is? Steve Jones asks the question this week.
2008-04-10
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Tracking your salary over time might be a fun, or not so fun, endeavor for a DBA. However should anyone else know what your trend is? Steve Jones asks the question this week.
2008-04-10
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On my database server I have my databases set to the full recovery model, but the transaction logs get quite big, so I am issuing a BACKUP LOG with NO_LOG. I am not exactly sure if this causes any issues, but I know that I am able to free up space in my transaction log and shrink the file. Is this the correct way to handle this situation?
2008-04-10
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One of the more obscure requirements that a developer may find themselves facing is the need to compare a row with its immediate sibling. One such case is when a list of values needs to be processed to produce a moving average or to smooth a sequence of statistical numbers where their order is important. For example, values lying along a time line. The solution is actually quite simple, but not immediately obvious.
2008-04-10
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Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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