New Windows Vista Security Blog
If you're keeping up with Windows Vista and you're interested in the
security aspects of it, there's a new blog, with...
2006-07-29
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Brian Kelley
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Connecting With Perl Using Win32 : ODBC
Perl has been a popular language for Unix administrators for years. It is flexible, easy to learn, and capable of doing some very powerful things with relatively few lines of code. In this article by Brian Kelly, he shows you how to connect to SQL Server via Perl.
2006-07-28 (first published: 2002-12-03)
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Haidong Ji blogs on a tip for learning Perl
Haidong Ji, co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, blogged on Learning Perl using the Perl Debugger. Haidong posts...
2006-07-27
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Interview with Craig Mundie on Channel 9
Channel 9 has posted a 25 minute interview with Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Microsoft. You can...
2006-07-27
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New SQL Server 2005 Books Online download available
As reported in several other places... there is a new Books Online (July 2006) for SQL Server 2005. You can...
2006-07-25
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Before you submit that incident to Microsoft...
Check out this post:
Things to consider before submitting an incident to Microsoft
Getting the information together before you make that phone...
2006-07-20
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Presenting at Columbia, SC DotNet User Group
I'll be presenting at the DotNet Columbia SC User Group on August 8th.
My presentation is tentatively titled, "Something old, something...
2006-07-20
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The Plumbing Behind MSDN 2
There is a very interesting article about how MSDN 2 utilizes SQL
Server 2005 technologies, specifically Service Broker and CLR
integration. The...
2006-07-20
1,517 reads
Free Data Models
I saw this on a Channel 9 forum thread:
Library of Free Data Models
There are quite a few starter data models...
2006-07-19
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Get a Better Understanding of How Queries Execute
I was catching up on my blog reading (unfortunately, in some cases I'm
a month behind) and came across a link...
2006-07-14
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
Forums
non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers