How Database Mail works in SQL Server ?

Database Mail is email feature in SQL Server from SQL Server 2005 onwards. This feature used for mailing alerts, notification,...

It’s Time to End Password Reuse

Last week Ebay announced that some accounts were compromised, including passwords with as yet unstated encryption. Those who aren’t tech...

Languages of Big Data Apache Hadoop

Languages of Big Data
Big Data is here and rapidly growing.  If you are just starting to learn about Big Data...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #85

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

Microsoft’s free virtual labs

If you have spent any time looking around my site, you will notice that I love study materials and in...

NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 2

This is the second blog post in the series dedicated to the Network Graph Analysis Tool – NodeXL.

If you are interested,...

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Speaking at SQLSaturday #310 in Dublin/Ireland

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SQL Code Guard. New release 2.5.5257

Today we released new version of SQL Code Guard, 2.5.5257
Main changes:
SQL Code Guard is digitally signed now to satisfy corporate...

Useful Links for learning & using in Data Quality Projects in SQL Server

Data Quality Services in SQL Server is a component that is based around the concept of knowledge-driven quality.
Here comes a...