24 (Hours of SQL Training Delivered to Your Computer)
The Spring 24Hours of PASS: Celebrating Women in Technology will be broadcast live on the intertubez on March 15 and 16...
2011-02-22
1,575 reads
Articles
How to Communicate Between SSBS Applications Across Instances
Arshad Ali demonstrates how to verify the SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS) configuration when both the Initiator and Target are in different SQL Server instances, how to communicate between them and how to monitor the conversation.
2011-02-22
2,249 reads
TSQL Challenge 50 - Extracting a specifical range from random data wit
The purpose of this challenge is to test your query writing skills with a limited set of TSQL keywords.
2011-02-21
1,706 reads
Understanding SQL Server 2008 R2 Fixed Database Level Roles
To easily manage the permissions in SQL Server databases, Microsoft has provided several roles in SQL Server which are security principals that group other principals.
2011-02-21
3,665 reads
Deleting Large Number of Records
Often someone will try to perform a delete on a large number of records and run into a number of problems. Slow performance, log growth, and more. Lynn Pettis shows us how to better handle this situation in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005
2011-02-18 (first published: 2009-09-15)
54,536 reads
Column-Level Encryption in SQL Server
Beginning with SQL Server 2005, column-level encryption and decryption capabilities were made available within the database, providing a solution for situations where one-off types of data need to be secured beyond your existing authorization, authentication or firewall settings. This article provides an overview and example of securing a column using native SQL Server cryptography functions.
2011-02-18
4,894 reads
Corporate Culture
One of the things I enjoy about work is seeing the various cultures that evolve. Some companies are rigid, some...
2011-02-18
1,369 reads
The Stairway Series
SQLServerCentral launches a new series of content today, aimed at helping you bootstrap your knowledge in specific areas of SQL Server.
2011-02-17
2,781 reads
StreamInsight: A new way to think about analyzing data
Last night’s Oregon SQL user
group meeting was very enlightening. Mark Simms form the SQLCAT team came
down from Redmond to talk...
2011-02-17
1,251 reads
Using SQL Server Integration Services and StreamInsight Together
The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance
for enriching data integration scenarios by integrating StreamInsight with SQL
Server Integration Services. Specifically, we looked at the technical challenges
and solutions for such integration, by using a case study based on a customer
scenarios in the telecommunications sector.
2011-02-17
2,719 reads
Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
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String Similarity II
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