This article by Andy Warren talks about using sp_addlogin to move logins from one server to another. It also points out a problem you may run into if you have a SQL 7 server that was upgraded from 6.5
2007-10-02 (first published: 2001-05-01)
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We're pleased to announce that Robert will be writing for us each month - generally on stored procedures, but occasionally on a different topic. This article discusses how nesting stored procedures works and how to use @@NextLevel. Good reading! If there is a stored procedure topic you'd like to see covered, add a comment to the article or email us at articles@sqlservercentral.com
2007-10-02 (first published: 2003-05-23)
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One of the seeminly more popular enhancements in SQL Server 2005 to T-SQL is the PIVOT operator. There have been quite a few articles, but new author Peter Larsson decomposes in detail how you can perform this operation with previous versions.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2006-06-12)
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Query Analyzer is a great tool for developing SQL code. There are a number of little tricks that can greatly increase the amount of work you can do with very little effort. This article starts looking at some of the features of this tool.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2003-01-07)
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It is not recommended, but there is quite a bit of valuable information stored in the SQL Server 2000 system tables. Raj Vasant brings us a look at some of the information that you can get by directly querying the system tables and explains what is stored in a number of them, including gathering information about computed columns.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2005-06-13)
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SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services is becoming a more and more popular reporting option everyday. However, the disaster recovery plan for this add on is not a simple backup and restore since there are multiple pieces and servers usually involved. However the DBA may be responsible for the entire system. Mike Pearson brings us a look at some of the scenarios that you need to consider and what you might need to prepare for disaster recovery of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2005-01-06)
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Steve Jones has been working with SQL Server for 10 years. Join him for a stroll down memory lane.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2002-05-23)
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The SQL Server 2000 security model is not the best one of all the RDBMS platforms and requires some work to secure properly. One of the practices that is recommended is removing the builtin/administrators group from accessing the SQL Server. New author Kathi Kellenberger shows us some of the pitfalls she encountered when removing this group from her servers.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2005-01-12)
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Get some big performance gains by removing cursors from your code. New author Clinton Herring brings us a couple hints as he shows how two cursors were replaced in his code, resulting in 80 minutes of processing time dropping to 12!
2007-10-02 (first published: 2005-07-11)
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SQL Server 2005 is out and everyone is moving to test and deploy it. However many people are still managing SQL Server 2000 instances. New author Boris Baliner brings us a few tricks to find that information you are used to from Enterprise Manager.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2006-03-16)
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I want to use the ADD SENSITIVITY CLASSIFICATION DDL to mark some columns in my SQL Server 2022 database as PII. Can I use this code?
ADD SENSITIVITY CLASSIFICATION TO dbo.sales.price,
dbo.sales.discount
WITH (
LABEL = 'Highly Confidential',
INFORMATION_TYPE = 'Financial',
RANK = 'INTERNAL ONLY'
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