SqlCredit – Part 9: Message Authentication Codes
This month's installment of "Developing a Complete SQL Server OLTP Database Project" covers searching encrypted data, dictionary attacks, and look-ups by hashed value.
2007-10-01
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Articles
The Puzzle of 'Rating Decomposition'
When reading rating information, how do you you knew how many points each separate voter gave if you only know the average rating and the number of votes? Well, you might be surprised to learn that you can figure it out using SQL
2007-10-01
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Conditional Statements in WHERE Clauses
T-SQL is a powerful language, enabling you to handle many different types of set based operations. But having flexible WHERE clauses isn't something that many DBAs deal with on a daily basis. New Author Sotiris Filippidis brings us an article on how you can structure a WHERE clause to handle all types of strange business logic without using dynamic SQL. Read on to learn more about his technique.
2007-09-28 (first published: 2004-07-26)
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Moving the SQL 2005 System Databases
Most SQL Server instances are installed with the default values, but that's not always the way it should be. Often there is the need to "move" databases to comply with standards, free up disk space, or some other reason. Moving the system databases can be a little tricky, but author Vince Iacoboni brings us his code and technique for easily doing this for SQL Server 2005 databases.
2007-09-28 (first published: 2006-09-26)
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Isolation Levels in SQL Server 2005
Isolation levels are used to prioritize the acccess to a resource. SQL Server 2005 extends upon the support for isolation levels in 2000 with several new features including an additional level.
2007-09-28
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SqlCredit Part 8: Comparing Encrypt/DecryptByCert and Encrypt/DecryptByKey
Continuing with this series looking at encryption functions.
2007-09-28
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Beginning Professional Development
Continuing with his series on professional development, Andy Warren takes a look at funding some of your career growth and why it pays to invest in yourself.
2007-09-27 (first published: 2006-09-25)
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Newsletter Changes
A few proposed changes to the newsletter. Read about them and give us some feedback on what you think.
2007-09-27
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Reverse Engineering ADTs in SQL Server 2000 - Part 3
Continuing on with his series on ADTs, Yakov Shlafman takes a look at working with schema changes when your ADT is on a column used as a primary or foreign key.
2007-09-27
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Avoid enclosing Indexed Columns in a Function in the WHERE clause
When a function is wrapped around an indexed column in the WHERE clause it will usually prevent the proper usage of that index. This article gives an example and discusses what other options are available.
2007-09-27
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Blogs
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Encoding Strings
I have this code in SQL Server 2025. What is the result?
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