Up Your Value
With the economy in a recession, how should you be managing your career? Steve Jones talks a little about building your brand and showing value to your employer.
2009-03-04
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Articles
Up Your Value
With the economy in a recession, how should you be managing your career? Steve Jones talks a little about building your brand and showing value to your employer.
2009-03-04
118 reads
Creating and Modifying Tables in SSMS - SQL School Video
Learn how to use the SSMS GUI to modify tables in this SQL School video.
2009-03-03
3,068 reads
Adoption
Are lots of people adopting SQL Server 2008? Should you be looking at it? Steve Jones has a few comments on what the new lifecycle of SQL Server might mean for DBAs and developers.
2009-03-03
758 reads
Adoption
Are lots of people adopting SQL Server 2008? Should you be looking at it? Steve Jones has a few comments on what the new lifecycle of SQL Server might mean for DBAs and developers.
2009-03-03
559 reads
Adoption
Are lots of people adopting SQL Server 2008? Should you be looking at it? Steve Jones has a few comments on what the new lifecycle of SQL Server might mean for DBAs and developers.
2009-03-03
551 reads
Mapping Database Principals to Server Principals
A question on the forum asked how to find all the database mappings for a particular login. If you're on SQL Server 2000 or below, the tables you want to use are syslogins in the master database and sysusers in each database.
2009-03-03
4,468 reads
SQL Server Encryption Key Management between Development, Test and Production Environments
The company I work for has decided to use the encryption technology available in SQL Server 2005. We have almost everything ironed out except for which keys to use in the development, testing, and production environments. Should we use one key for all three environments or different keys for each?
2009-03-03
2,865 reads
The Safe and Easy Way to Delete All Data in a SQL Server DB
Deleting all the data in a SQL Server database doesn't have to involve complex code. The undocumented stored procedure sp_MSForEachTable safely bypasses built-in limitations to accomplish this common task.
2009-03-03
4,786 reads
You Must Trust Your DBAs
This is a follow-on post to You Must Trust Someone. My point in that post was to establish that being able to and and actually trusting your account and server administrators is a necessity. I didn't go into the business aspect of that, but basically it boils down to having a good selection process for candidates, checking out their references, ...
2009-03-03
2,022 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
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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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