SQL Server security: Database roles
Database roles for SQL servers can increase the security of your enterprise. Understand how to set up database roles, and learn how they function.
2009-01-21
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Articles
Writing to an operating system file using the SQL Server SQLCLR
Reading files from the operating system can be done with T-SQL as I showed in the tip Using OPENROWSET to read large files into SQL Server. What if you want to write to an operating system file? For example, writing to a text file. There's no T-SQL that supports writing to a file.
2009-01-21
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Creating a Synonym for a Table - SQL School Video
New in SQL Server 2005, Synonyms replace aliases from previous versions. Brian Knight shows how they can be created and used.
2009-01-20
2,705 reads
Log Shipping Cannot Access the File
New author Brian Bitzer brings us a solution to a log shipping problem in the Real World. Read about jhow one DBA solves a contention issue using SSIS.
2009-01-20
4,142 reads
Missing row numbers
I had a request from a client who prints a lot of cheques each month and there control over the cheques went a bit haywire. The requested me to create some controls in their system to make sure that the cheques are use in cheque number sequence.
2009-01-20
1,125 reads
Secure Cell Phones
With the inauguration of a new President in the US, will he give up his Blackberry? Steve Jones found an alternative that was surprising.
2009-01-20
774 reads
Sorting MSDB package folders
If you use the MSDB package store in SSIS 2005, you may have noticed that the folders are not sorted in any friendly way, it is actually just the order they were added. You end up with something like the left-hand example below
2009-01-20
1,799 reads
SQL Server Integration Services an Introduction - Part 1
This article is part 1 of a 4 part series that introduces how SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) can be used as a platform for building high performance data integration and workflow solutions
2009-01-20
4,009 reads
Spring Clean Your Database Schema
The utility described in this article allows you to quickly identify which columns have mismatched data types across tables in a database. Correcting these will improve performance etc.
2009-01-19
12,160 reads
Advanced new features in SSMS 2008
SQL Server Management Studio 2008 has several new features, including the T-SQL Debugger for easier debugging and a new Object Explorer Details window that's easier to use.
2009-01-19
3,390 reads
Blogs
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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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