Cloud Storage Security: Are You Doing Your Part?
If the level cloud storage encryption are so high, then why is the cloud security industry experiencing such distrust?
2014-06-18
123 reads
Articles
Automated testing in Microsoft Azure
Matthew Flatt was trying to measure the performance of a tool interacting with Microsoft Azure, and had trouble getting a consistent test. His solution? Run the tests on VMs in Azure, housed in the same data center as the blob storage.
2014-06-18
2,717 reads
Server Role Membership Validation
Need to know how to verify if a login has server-level access to your SQL Server instance?
2014-06-17
2,862 reads
How Safe is Cloud Storage?
As more and more companies look to the cloud for their data storage needs, the same questions are being asked over and over again: if a security breech were to occur, who would be responsible and how much of a guarantee could the provider give us that our data would be safe from prying eyes.
2014-06-17
5,644 reads
SQL Saturday #293 Maine
SQL Saturday is coming to Portland, Maine on June 28, 2014. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. Speakers include Grant Fritchey, Adam Machanic, and Wayne Sheffield. Register while space is available.
2014-06-17
2,498 reads
Same tune, different song
It's not new and I'm already doing it. Phil Factor, a.k.a. Methuselah, on Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
2014-06-16
140 reads
SQL Server 2014 Launch Party in Ontario
A SQL Server 2014 Launch Party is being held at Microsoft Mississauga Ontario on June 21, 2014.All are SQL Server MVP's and they will be addressing us in both official languages. The event is being held at Microsoft's offices from 10 AM to 3 PM, A light lunch will be served.
2014-06-16
1,663 reads
The SQL of The Game of Life
Joe Celko finds a reference to Conway's Game of Life while clearing out his desk, and is suddenly gripped with nostalgia. It wasn't just flares, mullets and disco, but simple computer games in interpreted basic. Somehow, Conway's Game of Life was too intriguing to be abandoned in the attic. Can it be implemented in SQL? Joe sets up a challenge.
2014-06-16
2,958 reads
MDX Guide for SQL Folks: Part I - Navigating The Cube
Learn all you need to know about MDX, by drawing only on your current SQL knowledge.
2014-06-13 (first published: 2012-11-01)
28,552 reads
Setting Up Your SQL Server Agent Correctly
It is important to set up SQL Server Agent Security on the principles of 'executing with minimum privileges’, and ensure that errors are properly logged and alerts are set up for a comprehensive range of errors. SQL Server Agent allows fine-grained control of every job step that should allow tasks to be run entirely safely even if they occasionally need special privileges.
2014-06-13
3,563 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers