Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Part 1: Introduction to Profiler Concepts
In this video written by MVP Brad McGehee you can learn how to get started using the Profiler GUI.
2009-05-05
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Articles
Access Your Data On Premise Or In The Cloud With ADO.NET Data Services
Web Services has been a hot topic for a number of years now, but what, you may wonder, are these Data Services everyone's talking about lately? As the architecture of Web applications has changed and matured (with the popularity of Rich Internet Applications [RIAs], for example), there has been an increased awareness of the value of exposing raw data, minus any interface or formatting, to any service or application that wants to consume it.
2009-05-05
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Flash
Flash. Flash Gordon. There have been a few "Flash"es in Steve Jones career, and the newest one looks interesting.
2009-05-05
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Flash
Flash. Flash Gordon. There have been a few "Flash"es in Steve Jones career, and the newest one looks interesting.
2009-05-05
867 reads
Flash
Flash. Flash Gordon. There have been a few "Flash"es in Steve Jones career, and the newest one looks interesting.
2009-05-05
839 reads
Security Basics: Defense-in-Depth
In my security presentations, another basic I talk about is defense-in-depth. The idea here is to produce multiple layers of protection against a particular attack. For instance, imagine malicious code against your home computer. This is a case where...
2009-05-05
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Using the OPENROWSET function in SQL Server
OPENROWSET is a handy tool for retrieving data. Find out how to use the OPENROWSET function for SQL Server and Microsoft Access.
2009-05-05
4,399 reads
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) SQL Server 2008
Transparent data encryption, otherwise known as TDE is one of the new features introduced in SQL Server 2008.
2009-05-04
20,888 reads
Finding the causes of poor performance in SQL Server, Part 2
In the first part of this series of articles, Gail showed how to find the procedures that contributed most to performance problems. In this final part, she shows how to use query statistics to pinpoint the queries that are causing the biggest problems, and then use the query execution plans to find out which operations are the root cause.
2009-05-04
4,867 reads
Installing Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Having completed our coverage of the Service Broker characteristics specific to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we now turn our attention to Reporting Services. In this article, we will present the initial setup process, leaving discussion of configuration, management, security, and usability for future installments.
2009-05-04
2,776 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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