Building Your Brand at Work?
This Friday's poll asks how much you can help yourself while working at your job? Can you build your own brand at work?
2009-07-17
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Articles
Context Switching or Database Impersonation using EXEC AS
SQL Server 2005/2008 provides the ability to change the execution and security context with the EXEC or EXECUTE AS clause to allow a user to perform high privileged activities without allowing the user to have high privilege access.
2009-07-17
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Rant: Updating Application Databases the Right Way
Recently, a fellow DBA showed me a set of documentation on a commercially available product. This is a product people pay money for to license and use. It's not an in-house developed application or a community released free sample.
2009-07-17
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Setting up Service Broker for secure communication
Securely sending Service Broker messages from instance to instance requires a somewhat complex configuration. This tip walks you through the proper methods
2009-07-17
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SQL Server Best Practices - Implementation of Database Object Schemas
SQL Server 2005 implemented the concept of a database object schema. A schema is a distinct namespace to facilitate the separation, management, and ownership of database objects. It removed the tight coupling of database objects and owners to improve the security administration of database objects. Database object schemas offer functionality to control and help secure application objects within a database environment not available in previous versions of SQL Server.
2009-07-17
4,124 reads
VDBA RAW
I've had a few requests in the past, so I decided to just give it a go. Here's the raw footage from the episode of the Voice of the DBA podcast that I shot this week. It's uncut, the raw footage of what I took off the camcorder,
2009-07-17
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Auditing with SQL Profiler
Complete package to allow tracking of any data that Profiler can capture and storage for auditing purposes, use to satisfy SOX compliance.
2009-07-16
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Setting Single User Mode - SQL School Video
This edition of SQL School brings us a look at how to set single user mode for your SQL Server instance.
2009-07-16
4,198 reads
Being The Best vs. Being Affordable
I read a post on Brent Ozar’s blog last week that discussed employers’ expectations when hiring new team members. Though the story was specific to database professionals, the same principles apply to almost any hiring situation. The moral of Brent’s story...
2009-07-16
1,541 reads
Building Your Brand at Work?
This Friday's poll asks how much you can help yourself while working at your job? Can you build your own brand at work?
2009-07-16
914 reads
Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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