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SQL Server Security: Security Admins

As we mentioned before, Brian will be writing a column covering all facets of security. Turns out that there is so much to cover, he has agreed to write two columns per month! This article talks about the principle least privilege, why it doesn't always work, and some good info about removing the Builtin\Admin account.

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2003-06-27

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Managing Jobs - Part 4

Andy has been busy lately on a project you'll be hearing more about soon (!), but he did manage to get part four of his managing jobs series done. This article discusses ideas for patterns to follow when building jobs, including writing to the console, setting errorlevels, and how to get them installed on the server. DBA's, if you're not developers, look at this article - this is stuff you can take to your development team and get better/more manageable jobs.

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2003-06-25

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Deleting Child Data Based Upon Criteria in the Parent Table

New Author! Thom's first article discusses the difficulties you encounter when your database doesn't support cascading deletes (or you've opted not to use it) and you need to delete data in a child table based upon a value in the parent table. Not exactly your run of the mill delete query. Take a look and please rate/comment the article!

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2003-06-24

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Technical Article

SQL Server DTS Best Practices

This article discusses various SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS) best practices. It is divided into sections like DTS naming conventions, DTS documentation, troubleshooting DTS packages, improving the performance of DTS packages, securing DTS packages, DTS resources.

2003-06-24

4,068 reads

Technical Article

Free BCP GUI

Pedro Estrada has published a free tool that according to his site "This is a complete application to have an easier interface to work with BCP against MSSQL servers. Just specify a server, database, table user name and password to BCP out or IN." Worth a try, and he has some other free utilities (some SQL, some not) on the site.

2003-06-19

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