Alex Kersha


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DTS and Global Variables

SQL Server 2000's DTS subsystem is a tremendously flexible environment for handling any number of tasks on your SQL Server. Alex Kersha used DTS to implment a task that manages the number of backup files on his server, which is conifgurable with a global variable. Read on and get the code to implement this task on your servers.

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2006-02-20

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DTS Hashing

DTS is a great tool in SQL Server 2000 for easily setting up jobs to import or export data. But it can also have security risks. New author Alex Kersha brings us a simple security technique to be sure that you are properly executing your DTS packages in a secure manner.

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