Kill That Target!
Having trouble with a target server (TSX)? Steve Jones did in his environment. Read about how he worked around the issue to restore administrative capabilities.
2002-09-16
7,260 reads
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The Dot Com Bust - Part 2
It's been a year since Steve Jones last wrote about the state of the DBA job market after the economy soured. Here's an update of the last year.
2002-09-09
4,506 reads
ANSI Options Part 4 - ANSI_WARNINGS
Part 4 examines more ANSI options that are available in SQL Server. A simple setting with some unexpected (for the author) results.
2002-09-03
4,769 reads
SQL-DMO for Beginners
How many of you are VB programmers? How many of you have never worked with DMO? This is the article if you don't work with VB or DMO, but want to get started. One of the more powerful tools that you can add to your arsenal.
2002-08-29
13,015 reads
Review: MSSQLCrack
A new SQL Authentication password cracker you should be aware of. It can crack your SQL passwords and give you an idea of how secure you are.
2002-08-20
18,059 reads
Sort of Unique
Recently Steve Jones noticed that someone wanted to use a UDF to enforce uniqueness. No big deal, right? Well this person wanted to enforce uniqueness based on some other column value. A bit of a challenge, but this article presents a couple ways to handle this.
2002-08-12
4,273 reads
Ansi Options Part 3 - ANSI_NULL_DFLT_ON
The behavior of SQL Server is influenced in many ways by the various settings and options available. This series will examine some of the ANSI options that can be set and changed in SQL Server.
2002-08-07
3,937 reads
Review: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
A look at a new security tool from Microsoft for analyzing your SQL (and other) servers.
2002-07-30
5,047 reads
The Vision Series
From News.com, this series contains a bunch of interviews and surveys of a number of CTOs from large US corporations. Worth a read to see what the heavy spenders think.
2002-07-25
2,556 reads
Ansi Options Part 2 - ANSI_NULLS
The behavior of SQL Server is influenced in many ways by the various settings and options available. This series will examine some of the ANSI options that can be set and changed in SQL Server.
2002-07-15
4,688 reads
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