PASS Update #4
Last week I posted Update #3 that discussed my first board meeting, but I didn't have time to cover my goals, so I 'll do that and add some other minor items as well.
2009-02-10
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Articles
Securing SQL Server with access control and login
SQL Server login monitoring and access control are important elements of SQL database security. Learn how DDL triggers can help alert you to security issues.
2009-02-10
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Speaking / Teaching Engagements
I should have put this out earlier, before going to the SQL Server Innovators Guild , but I got too busy. Here are my current speaking / teaching engagements for the first half of the year:
2009-02-10
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The New Office
A tour of the new Red Gate Software offices from Steve Jones, looking at how a modern software company has set up it's space.
2009-02-10
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The New Office
A tour of the new Red Gate Software offices from Steve Jones, looking at how a modern software company has set up it's space.
2009-02-10
625 reads
The New Office
A tour of the new Red Gate Software offices from Steve Jones, looking at how a modern software company has set up it's space.
2009-02-10
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2009-02-09
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SQL Server at DevWeek 2009, Barbican Centre, London, March 23-27, 2009
DevWeek is Europe’s leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects, and features two dedicated tracks of breakout sessions on SQL Server and related topics, plus optional pre- and post-conference workshops.
2009-02-09
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Security issues when using aliased users in SQL Server
This tip shows you how to find security holes when aliased users are setup in your databases and also that this feature will be deprecated in SQL Server 2008.
2009-02-09
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SQL Server CLR function to concatenate values in a column
If a column is normalized, but the user really wants to see the values as a short comma separated list, how can I write a query that produces the list? Concatenating the values in a column would be pretty easy if SQL Server had a concatenate aggregate function, which it doesn't. What's more, for efficiency sake it's important to write the reporting queries without using cursors.
2009-02-09
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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...
Forums
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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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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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