Adding a UI to the Standalone SQL Agent
In a recent blog post, SQL Server expert Denny Cherry discusses adding a user interface to his Standalone SQL Agent, a replacement for the SQL Server Agent service.
2009-03-17
1,896 reads
Articles
Analyzing SQL Server Permissions
This article shows the steps to analyze SQL Server logins and permissions to ensure that there are no logins and users that exist who are have unnecessary access
2009-03-17
3,464 reads
Book Review: Murach's SQL Server 2008 For Developers
I received a review copy of Murach's SQL Server 2008 For Developers a couple months back and just finished up looking through it. In general I've always liked the style of the Murach books; short lessons that flow about as logically as you can do it when it often seems like you need to know it all to get anything done!
2009-03-17
1,782 reads
Make the 2009 PASS Summit Better: Offer Your Speaking Tips to Others
This year, I was asked to participate on the PASS Program Committee Management team as the “Speaker Manager.” One of my tasks is to create a Speaker’s Resource page on the SQLPASS.org website to aid speakers who want to submit session abstracts for the 2009 PASS Summit, which will be held in Seattle, WA from November 3 — 6, 2009.
2009-03-17
1,157 reads
Real-Time Tracking of Tempdb Utilization Through Reporting Services
SQL Server 2005 system views and Reporting Services are combined to break down tempdb utilization into its individual components in real time.
2009-03-16
9,291 reads
CONTROL SERVER vs. sysadmin membership
In a previous blog post on Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database, I mentioned that having CONTROL SERVER rights means having implicit rights into the databases. Robert Davis posted a comment asking if there was a difference with respect to explicit permissions between being a member of the sysadmin fixed server role and having CONTROL SERVER rights.
2009-03-16
3,550 reads
Database Mirroring Automating Failover for Multiple SQL Server Databases With No Witness
If you don't have a witness server and your principal server goes, how do you make your mirror server the principal and bring all your databases online?
2009-03-16
2,921 reads
SQL Server Knockoffs
Will we see a low-cost SQL Server knock-off at some point? Steve Jones thinks it could happen as the RDBMS becomes a commodity product.
2009-03-16
551 reads
SQL Server Knockoffs
Will we see a low-cost SQL Server knock-off at some point? Steve Jones thinks it could happen as the RDBMS becomes a commodity product.
2009-03-16
568 reads
SQL Server Knockoffs
Will we see a low-cost SQL Server knock-off at some point? Steve Jones thinks it could happen as the RDBMS becomes a commodity product.
2009-03-16
819 reads
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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Spring Connections and Learning at PASS On Tour
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Multiple Sequence Values
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Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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