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Configure MaxTokenSize for SQL Server Authentication

DBA's and web developers at our company are experiencing issues with connecting to SQL instances using SQL Server Management Studio and other SQL tools using Windows Integrated Authentication. Our company is large, with well over 70,000 users and groups in Active Directory. When we look in the NT event log on the SQL Server we see both MSSQL and Kerberos errors. What could be causing this?

2008-08-25

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Concatenating Row Values in Transact-SQL

It is an interesting problem in Transact SQL, for which there are a number of solutions and considerable debate. How do you go about producing a summary result in which a distinguishing column from each row in each particular category is listed in a 'aggregate' column? A simple, and intuitive way of displaying data is surprisingly difficult to achieve. Anith Sen gives a summary of different ways, and offers words of caution over the one you choose.

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2008-08-22

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Recover from a SQL Injection Attack on SQL Server

Lately it seems like SQL Injection attacks have been increasing. Recently our team has worked through resolving a few different SQL Injection attacks across a variety of web sites. Each of these attacks had a number of similarities which proved to point back to the same source. With this information in hand, the resolution should be much quicker. As such, if your web site is attacked with SQL Injection, how should you address it? How can the identification, analysis, recovery and resolution be streamlined? What are some lessons learned?

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2008-08-22

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How To Use the Analysis Services Execute DDL Task in SSIS 2005

We are looking to automate some tasks to be performed on our SQL Server Analysis Services Servers. Can you give us the details on how the Analysis Services Execute DDL Task can be used in a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package?

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2008-08-20

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Investigating SQL Server 2008 Wait Events with XEVENTS

Some reasons for the slow-running of database applications aren't obvious. Occasionally, even the profiler won't tell you enough to remedy a problem, especially when a SQL Statement is being forced to wait. Now, in SQL Server 2008, come XEvents, which allow you to look at those waits that are slowing your SQL Statements. Mario Broodbakker continues his series about SQL Server Wait Events

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2008-08-20

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Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell – Part 4

Earlier installments of this series illustrated how to ping the host, how to check all of the windows services related to SQL Server and how to check the hardware and operating system information. Part 4 of this series demonstrates how to get hard disk and network adapter information from the host machine.

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2008-08-18

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Question of the Day

Creating JSON III

In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:

BeerIDBeerName
1Becks
2Fat Tire
3Mac n Jacks
4Alaskan Amber
8Kirin
I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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