SQLBits Community Day
If you're in the UK in October, you might want to sign up for the SQLBits Community day put on by MVP Simon Sabin.
2007-08-27
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Articles
The SQL Internals Viewer
Danny Gould has written a very interesting piece of software that gives you a view into the storage of your data inside SQL Server. And it's FREE!!! He brings us a description of this software in this short article.
2007-08-27
13,150 reads
Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Accessing Database Data
This article shows how to use the SqlDataSource and AccessDataSource controls to query data from a relational database.
2007-08-27
3,636 reads
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 4 - Surface Area Configration
This article demonstrates how you can use Surface Area Configuration utility in order to modify some of the security-related settings that have been applied during installation of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.
2007-08-27
1,878 reads
SQL 2005 Symmetric Encryption
One of the more interesting new features with SQL Server 2005 is the native encryption built into the product. Expert SQL crpytographer, Michael Coles, brings us a look at the symmetric keys in SQL Server 2005 and how they can be used to encrypt data and be secured by a certificate.
2007-08-24 (first published: 2007-05-11)
54,572 reads
Ten Reasons to Attend the PASS Summit
Not the ones you think, but all good reasons to come to Denver. Read on for a bit of humor and find out how to come to the SQLServerCentral.com party!
2007-08-24 (first published: 2007-08-08)
2,454 reads
SQL Agent - A Job Scheduler Framework
An easy to use .NET solution for Job Scheduling, with pluggable actions, that runs on a Windows Service. Backup your SQL Server Express and much more!
2007-08-24
2,266 reads
SqlCredit Part 6: Exploring EncryptByCert and DecryptByCert
SQL Server 2005 includes support for encrypting and decrypting data for storage using EncryptByCert. Let’s look at how to implement this in the SqlCredit database.
2007-08-24
2,450 reads
Getting Random Results
One common need that DBAs run into is building a report that returns data in some random order. Especially if you're doing some type of contest, like giving something away at your User Group meeting. Andy Warren brings us a short article on this with a look at the performance impact of randomly ordering results.
2007-08-23
4,349 reads
13 disasters for production web sites and their solutions
Learn about 13 production disasters that can bring down your business
2007-08-23
4,454 reads
Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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