Don Kiely contends that exercising administrative rights over our computers is a major cause of insecure systems. In the first of five articles, he explains the concept of "least privilege" and shows why software developers should be happy to operate as "mere users."
2005-09-08
2,801 reads
Part 3 of Steve Jones' series on employee retention, this one focused on the manager's point of view in keeping employees around. Gain some insight into how the manager may view your situation and understand why he or she may act as they do.
2005-09-07
10,820 reads
Written by an Oracle guy, but it's still some good advice for people that want to be DBAs. If you're experienced, pass it along to others that are looking to move into this role.
2005-09-07
4,832 reads
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services is an incredibly powerful, but complex environment for creating ETL packages. Kristian Wedberg brings us a new article on reusing some of your code and some complex looping structures that you might want to use in your applications.
2005-09-06
16,186 reads
If you develop SQL databases, you know how difficult it can be to promote from the development environment to production with any level of confidence that the databases are the same.
When you have upgrades, it’s difficult to identify changes as well, especially when there are multiple developers making changes to multiple databases. The problem is compounded if your target environment is a client’s system over which you have no control. It’s staggering to think about what can happen if there are 600-plus client systems that have various versions of your database.
2005-09-06
2,677 reads
Reporting Services has been enhanced in SQL Server 2005 and new author Anubhav Bansal brings us a how-to guide for editing your reports.
2005-09-05
11,552 reads
One important component of tuning a large, heavily used database, is to ensure that the tables are indexed optimally: enough indexing, but not too much indexing for the application you are running. There are rules of thumb about index tuning, but the entire issue is so complex that there's no "silver bullet" solution that will work for every case. However, in tuning indexes we can generally say that it's not a good idea to maintain duplicate indexes on the same data. SQL Server does not provide checks to prevent duplicate indexes from being created, as long as the names are different
2005-09-05
3,192 reads
Author Sean McCown would like to see some improvements in the editing tools that are available. He's proposed some changes and ideas to make a better tool. Join the discussion and see if you can get the SQL Server vendors to build something to make every DBA's job easier.
2005-09-02
4,144 reads
An interesting interview with Raj Gill, SQL Server 2005 Roadshow Presenter by Robert Pearl. Get inside the mind of the co-founder of Scalability Experts.
2005-09-01
12,870 reads
SQL Server 2005 brings many new features, but one of the most popular and hotly contested is the integration of the CLR inside the database server. New author Anajwala brings us a Hello World and an example stored procedure written using C#.
2005-09-01
20,410 reads
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
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select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers