One of the main defenses touted against SQL injection attacks is to use proper parameterization at the application layer. But while this gets most of the cases, there are clearly examples where this alone fails. For instance, consider the stored procedure...
2009-05-20
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In a recent tip I outlined a process for converting a date, stored as an integer into a datetime data type. Date and time information for run history of SQL Server Agent jobs is stored within the msdb..sysjobshistory table as an integer data type, not as a datetime as one would expect. As promised, this tip picks up where we left off. On converting the integer-typed run_time into a format that is more user friendly for presentation purposes.
2009-05-20
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2009-05-19
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The fifth module of the training course "Becoming a Profiler Master", looks in details at the data columns that are associated with the Profiler events discussed in module 4.
2009-05-19
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2009-05-19
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Sometimes there is a need to process files in a folder, but first you need to determine which files need to be processed compared to older files that have already been processed. There are several ways that this can be done, but in this tip I show you a way this can be done using SQL Server and XML.
2009-05-19
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Add a third node to a two-node Peer-to-Peer replication topology and learn how to resolve an update-update conflict.
2009-05-19
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Question: What mechanism allows SQL Server 2008 to commit transactions on the mirror faster than SQL Server 2005? This question was asked on a technical discussion group. My reply follows.
2009-05-19
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Continuing with his series on using auditing information to roll transactions forward or back, David McKinney shows us how to generate audit triggers using XML.
2009-05-18
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The June meeting of the Triangle SQL Server User group features MVP Andy Leonard. If you are in the Raleigh area, check this out.
2009-05-18
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I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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