Sometimes coincidences happen that make you sit back and say Hmm. Couple of days back Ovidiu, one of our senior developers, came by and asked me to blog about the Pivot transform. Then earlier today someone doing a high end POC down south need the same information.
2005-11-09
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SQL Diagnostic Manager from Idera is a great tool for troubleshooting issues with your SQL Server databases. Kathi Kellenberher puts this tool through it's paces and gives you some insight into how it fits in a busy SQL Server environment.
2005-11-08
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Where does Access fit in Microsoft’s future? Before that question is answered, we should examine why it might be important.
2005-11-08
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Cryptography and encryption are coming to many systems, including databases. Check out a sample chapter from this upcoming book.
2005-11-07
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Backups and restores are two fundamental tasks that a DBA must perform correctly. But remembering the syntax, options, decoding filenames, etc. can often be busy work that leaves a DBA open to mistakes. New author Vince Iacoboni brings us his code and techniques for a set of stored procedures to make handling backups and restores very simple.
2005-11-07
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If you are deploying Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005, you may run into an issue when installing an SSL certificate. David Russell brings us some information on what could happen and how to successfully install.
2005-11-07
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In part one Chris Kempster covered a variety of security recommendations primarily for production systems. In Part two of this series he continues to explore security at a variety of levels where you may not realize you are vulnerable.
2005-11-04 (first published: 2004-01-30)
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Now it's time to review yet another migration related product from AdventNet. It is called "AdventNet SwisSQL Sybase to SQL Server Migration Tool 2.1". As the name suggests, this migration product automates the conversion of Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) T-SQL stored procedures, inbuilt functions, triggers, tables, views, and other database objects to Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL.
2005-11-04
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How do you find the next business day? What is a next business day? Holidays, country specific issues, etc. all come into play with many business functions and it can be a complicated process. New author Rob Scholl brings us a recursive function in TSQL to help solve this problem.
2005-11-03
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The November issue of the SQL Server Standard is out and being mailed to everyone. Read the editorial and get the table of contents.
2005-11-03
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Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
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