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Enhanced Query Analyzer

Here's a little replacement for Query Analyzer that appears to provide most of the functions, plus a few more. While we haven't given it a full review, at first glance it appears to do the job. Plus there's NO INSTALL!!!! Always a plus for me.

2004-05-07

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Hidden Dangers!

How many of you register a server in Enterprise Manager? Now how many of you click the "save password" box? Probably most of you. Are you aware of the security risks associated with this? James Travis looks at one of potential problems here and other security issues relating to SQL-DMO.

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2004-05-04

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Auditing Your SQL Server Part 4 - Selective Auditing

It's been some time and he apologizes. This next part of this series from Steve Jones looks at selective auditing changes to data on the server using a combination of methods presented in previous articles in the series. Read on if you have problems tracking changes to data on some tables, but don't want to implement a solution that tracks every change.

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2004-04-28

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Capturing The Error Description In A Stored Procedure

Error handling is one of those things that is simple to do in SQL Server, but most people don't do it and it's not the most rebust thing. Here's another way that you can implement error handling in your stored procedures from a new author Amit Jethva.

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2004-04-27

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Lumigent Technologies Delivers Data Auditing Solution for Microsoft SQ

Lumigent Technologies today announced that they are a recommended supplier to provide data auditing solutions for risk management to customers of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 through their Entegra product. Enterprises that depend on SQL Server databases can now rely on Entegra as a trusted auditing solution to enable compliance with regulatory requirements.

2004-04-22

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Identities and Sequences III

When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?

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