Ken Henderson explains how to use PSSDiag, a diagnostics collection tool for SQL Server. PSSDiag is one of several Microsoft Product Support Services tools recently released to the Web that are now available for personal use. (26 printed pages)
2005-01-10
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This script will get you the current date minus the time. It will display all zeros instead.
2005-01-07 (first published: 2004-12-28)
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Transactional replication is a type of replication provided by SQL Server 2000 that allows data modifications to be propagated incrementally between servers in a distributed environment.
2005-01-07
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This script will get you the current date minus the time. It will display all zeros instead.
2005-01-06 (first published: 2004-12-28)
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This article contains information about the bugs that are fixed by Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 Beta. (SP4).
2005-01-06
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If you are running Microsoft SQL Server databases to support critical enterprise applications, you are part of a growing trend.
2005-01-06
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Focuses on advanced techniques that can be used in an attack on an application utilizing Microsoft SQL Server as a backend. These techniques demonstrate how an attacker could use a SQL Injection vulnerability to retrieve the database content from behind a firewall and penetrate the internal network. Also provided are recommendations on how to prevent such attacks.
2005-01-05
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This function will take a 64 bitmask string and return the value of bitmask. If you need 128, 256, etc simply change the length of the parameter, being careful to remember you may need to change the return type of int to BigInt if you get too long.
2005-01-04 (first published: 2004-12-30)
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Detailed question/answer paper on deploying SQL Server in a Storage Area Network (SAN) Environment.
2005-01-04
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A common requirement when building a data warehouse is to be able to get all rows from a staging table where the business key is not in the dimension table. For example, I may want to get all rows from my STG_DATE table where the DateID is not in DIM_DATE.DateID.
2004-12-29
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By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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