Brian Knight

Brian Knight, MCSE, MCDBA, is on the Board of Directors for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) and runs the local SQL Server users group in Jacksonville. Brian is a contributing columnist for SQL Magazine and also maintains a weekly column for the database website SQLServerCentral.com. He is the author of Admin911: SQL Server (Osborne/McGraw-Hill Publishing) and co-author of Professional SQL Server DTS (Wrox Press). Brian is a Senior SQL Server Database Consultant at Alltel in Jacksonville and spends most of his time deep in DTS and SQL Server.

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Quick Filtering in SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

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I saw someone limit the databases they see in SSMS, which isn’t something I...

Penetration Testing your SQL Server, Part 1 – The Recon Mission

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Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking...

SQL Saturday Denver 2023–VCS Primer for the Database slides

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My slides are here: VCS Primer Denver 2023 This was an overview of what...

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Hi We have an stored procedure which runs frequently and  it contain logic in...

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Hi I am new to replication and we have database of size around 2TB...

get week number of month

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I want to query a table that has a datetime column ([CreateDateTime])  and get...

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