You pulled BUILTIN\Administrators, but are you auditing?
The conversation on local administrators having rights in SQL Server has proven to be interesting and at times entertaining. My...
2009-12-10
2,810 reads
Articles
SQL Server Management Studio and SQL Azure
A new article from Steve Moore shows us how to use SQL Server Management Studio with your SQL Azure databases in the cloud.
2009-12-09
6,347 reads
It's About Perception
What's the most important thing about your application? The code? The accuracy of its calculations? The layout of the reports? Steve Jones has another opinion.
2009-12-09
1,744 reads
It's About Perception
What's the most important thing about your application? The code? The accuracy of its calculations? The layout of the reports? Steve Jones has another opinion.
2009-12-09
838 reads
It's about Perception
What's the most important thing about your application? The code? The accuracy of its calculations? The layout of the reports? Steve Jones has another opinion.
2009-12-09
1,606 reads
MDX Utility Belt of Calculations Part 3
This is part three in a series of blog posts that will help you build an arsenal of MDX calculations...
2009-12-09
1,503 reads
Query Active Directory Data from SQL Server using T-SQL
Learn how to use SQL Server Transact SQL with OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY commands to access and retrieve data from Active Directory.
2009-12-09
5,402 reads
Introduction to Common Table Expressions
Learn how to use common table expressions to simplify your code. Replace temp tables and correlated subqueries with this cool T-SQL feature.
2009-12-08
15,255 reads
Best Practice for renaming a SQL Server Database
One of the Junior SQL Server Database Administrator in my company approached me yesterday with a dilemma. He was assigned a task to rename few of the databases in Beta and Production environments; the reason being the database name was based on some other project that is no longer relevant to the data which is presently stored within the database. At first I started to tell him, but figured it would be smarter to document the same and share the information.
2009-12-08
6,195 reads
Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 3)
In the previous post in this series, I discussed the obstacles to implementing electronic health data systems. Because of these...
2009-12-08
1,264 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
By SQLPals
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
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