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Auditing Failed Logins in SQL Server

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MSSQLTips.com

Auditing

An auditor has taken a look at our SQL Servers and has told us that we need to audit login failures to the SQL Servers themselves. How do we do this?

2009-05-06

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Median Workbench

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SimpleTalk

T-SQL

SQL Server database engine doesn't have a MEDIAN() aggregate function. This is probably because there are several types of median, such as statistical, financial or vector medians. Calculating Medians are essentially a row-positioning task, since medians are the middle value of an ordered result. Easy to do in SQL? Nope. Joe Celko explains why.

2009-05-06

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Access Your Data On Premise Or In The Cloud With ADO.NET Data Services

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Microsoft MSDN

cloud services

Web Services has been a hot topic for a number of years now, but what, you may wonder, are these Data Services everyone's talking about lately? As the architecture of Web applications has changed and matured (with the popularity of Rich Internet Applications [RIAs], for example), there has been an increased awareness of the value of exposing raw data, minus any interface or formatting, to any service or application that wants to consume it.

2009-05-05

1,623 reads

Using the OPENROWSET function in SQL Server

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SearchSQLServer

OPENROWSET

OPENROWSET is a handy tool for retrieving data. Find out how to use the OPENROWSET function for SQL Server and Microsoft Access.

2009-05-05

4,399 reads

Finding the causes of poor performance in SQL Server, Part 2

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SimpleTalk

Performance Tuning

In the first part of this series of articles, Gail showed how to find the procedures that contributed most to performance problems. In this final part, she shows how to use query statistics to pinpoint the queries that are causing the biggest problems, and then use the query execution plans to find out which operations are the root cause.

2009-05-04

4,867 reads

Installing Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

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Database Journal

Reporting Services (SSRS)

Having completed our coverage of the Service Broker characteristics specific to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we now turn our attention to Reporting Services. In this article, we will present the initial setup process, leaving discussion of configuration, management, security, and usability for future installments.

2009-05-04

2,776 reads

Script dimensions using Windows PowerShell and AMO

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Database Journal

PowerShell

Part 11 of our series on "Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2008 AMO" discusses how to generate a script for given dimension of the Analysis Service database to XMLA format file.

2009-05-01

2,122 reads

SQL Server 2005 Row Versioning-Based Transaction Isolation

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Row Versioning

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides nonlocking, nonblocking read consistency to your users through snapshot isolation and read committed isolation using row versioning. Find out when you can use these features to improve performance and reduce latency in your applications.

2009-05-01

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