SQL Saturday #115 - Portugal
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2012-03-06
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Articles
TSQL Challenge 77-Transform monthly resource efforts to weekly actuals
The challenge is to transform monthly resource efforts into weekly actuals.
2012-03-05
734 reads
Working with Perfmon CSV logs in Powershell
When all you have is Powershell and perfmon logs, here's a way you can use them together to perform some analysis.
2012-03-05
4,138 reads
2012-03-05
1,402 reads
The Road to Professional Database Development: Set-Based Thinking
Under the pseudonym of 'SwePeso', Peter Larsson is famous on SQL forums for the amazing performance he can get from SQL. How does he do it? In the first of a series of articles, Peter explains his secrets.
2012-03-05
4,317 reads
Eliminating Duplicate Rows using The PARTITION BY clause
The Partition clause in the Row_Number() Over() function is a quick tool for eliminating duplicate rows.
2012-03-02 (first published: 2010-09-22)
143,853 reads
Exploring SSIS Architecture and Execution History Through Scripting
When you are using SSIS, there soon comes a time when you are confronted with having to do a tricky task such as searching for particular connection strings in all your SSIS packages, or checking the execution history of scheduled SSIS jobs. You can do this type of work effectively in T-SQL as Feodor Georgiev explains.
2012-03-02
2,397 reads
Change the port number for connections to SQL Server
How to change the port number for connections to SQL Server.
2012-03-01
13,669 reads
Potential Security Exploit Using CONTROL SERVER Permissions in SQL Server
In this tip we cover what CONTROL SERVER is, how to detect its use and a possible way to exploit this permission.
2012-03-01
2,469 reads
New User-defined Server Roles in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 brings new security enhancements, one of which is to create user defined server roles, which simplifies instance wide administration and helps to increase the security of the instance by letting you define different groups with different sets of permissions as per their role and responsibilities.
2012-02-29
3,032 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
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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