2009-02-09
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Articles
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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Trust
Trust is a big part of any DBA's job. But it seems that many people in society trust each other less and less all the time. Steve Jones has a few comments on this important subject.
2009-02-09
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Trust
Trust is a big part of any DBA's job. But it seems that many people in society trust each other less and less all the time. Steve Jones has a few comments on this important subject.
2009-02-09
67 reads
Trust
Trust is a big part of any DBA's job. But it seems that many people in society trust each other less and less all the time. Steve Jones has a few comments on this important subject.
2009-02-09
89 reads
How To Retrieve Excel Schema Information Using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2005
How can we determine the sheet names in our SSIS package and process this variable number of sheets?
2009-02-06
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New data profiling tools in SQL Server 2008
New data-profiling tools native to SQL Server 2008 Integration Services such as the Data Profiling task and the Data Profiler Viewer help manage a business intelligence strategy.
2009-02-06
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Who Do We Choose to Follow?
Think about your career and the managers, and potentially leaders, that you’ve had in your life. Think about life in general and who do you admire, who have you modeled yourself after or who you wanted to follow in sports, in a hobby, in life, etc.
2009-02-06
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Identities and Sequences II
In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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