Using Cell-Level Encryption in SQL Server
Industry guidance such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and...
2012-07-19
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Basit Aalishan Masood-Al-Farooq
Encrypting Connections to SQL Server
I manage databases for financial organisation. These databases have confidential data of our customers such as credit card numbers, security...
2012-07-16
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Introducing Windows Server 2012 – Get the FREE eBook!
Introducing Windows Server 2012 - can be downloaded for free here.
This book provides the early, high-level information you need to begin preparing...
2012-07-14
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View SQL Server information using Transact-SQL script
Recently one of our clients requested information about their SQL Server infrastructure which we manage. In order to complete this...
2012-07-13 (first published: 2012-07-04)
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Retrieving password policy settings for SQL login accounts
Today, I wrote the following query for our internal audit report for SAS70. This query provides all the necessary details...
2012-07-10
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Purging MSDB Backup and Restore History Tables
Today while checking our database growth reports, I noticed that size of msdb database on most of our SQL Server...
2012-07-09
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Securing Database Contents with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Introduction
Microsoft SQL Server has many security features available within the database, but until release of SQL Server 2008 there has...
2012-07-08
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Find the size of Index in SQL Server
As we know, sp_spaceused gives the size of table and index but it gives the sum of size of all...
2012-07-06
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Useful new DMV’s in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and SQL Server 2012
Introduction
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and SP1 and SQL Server 2012 has a new set of DMVs that includes sys.dm_server_memory_dumps,...
2012-07-03
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Determine space used for each table in a SQL Server database
I have written following Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL scirpt to quickly determine space used for each table in a SQL...
2012-07-01
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Question of the Day
Detecting Characters
I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers