Backup Monitoring and Reporting
Ensuring that you can recover your server is critical. Chad Miller shows us how to accomplish daily backup monitoring and reporting.
2009-06-04
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Articles
Calling a Web Service from within SQL Server
One of the problems you might run into when building applications that consume web services is how you can use web services data within a SQL Server instance. Greg Larsen discusses how to do this within a stored procedure that only runs within the context of SQL Server.
2009-06-04
5,276 reads
Engine Separation of Duties for the Application Developer
Separation of duties is an important consideration for databases and database applications. By properly defining schemas and roles, you can create a distinction between users who can manipulate data from those that administer the database. This paper discusses the topics of which application developers should be aware and provides a heuristic example to guide you in achieving separation of duties.
2009-06-04
1,633 reads
Security Basics: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege Properly
Whenever I do a security presentation, I make sure to cover the Principle of Least Privilege. And when I do I boil it down to this very simple definition: Giving the rights to do the job. No more. No less.
2009-06-04
1,912 reads
SQLSaturday Events Coming Soon
Birmingham (May 20), Pensacola (June 6), and Portland (June 6) are upcoming SQLSaturday events. If you are in the area, please attend.
2009-06-04 (first published: 2009-05-05)
1,524 reads
How to Become an Exceptional DBA
Brad McGehee provides a "career guide" for DBAs. It is intended both to help prospective DBAs find a "way in" to the profession, and to advise existing DBAs on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.
2009-06-03
6,629 reads
Providing Operational Analytics via Microsoft Analysis Services, Infor
This article will review the processes for providing Operational Analytics via Microsoft Analysis Services, Informatica and Qlikview
2009-06-03
1,978 reads
SSIS multi-environment configuration in a single SQL Server table
Centralize SSIS configuration for multiple environments into one table.
2009-06-03
17,060 reads
Advanced SQL Server 2008 Extended Events with Examples
In the previous article we learned about SQL Server 2008 Extended Events terminology, components and took a look at a simple example. In this article we'll take a deeper look with some more complex examples.
2009-06-03
2,297 reads
If databases were 100x as fast
Kognitio WX2 I went to a presentation by a company called Kognitio which has a super-fast in-memory database engine targeted at the data warehouse market. They have put the Powerpoint...
2009-06-03
1,673 reads
Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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