Effective Permissions on a Database
written by David Postlethwaite
Ever wondered who has what access to your database or a particular object within? With the ever...
2011-07-14
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Blog Posts
How to move the TempDB Database
Note that TempDB is recreated every time SQL starts. Why is this important? It means we don’t have to move the...
2011-07-14
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Office Work
I have been working at home for over 8 years, sharing an office with my wife for most of that...
2011-07-14
1,735 reads
Profiled on SQLPeople
I’m late posting it, but I was featured on SQLPeople for June 27th. It’s a project Andy Leonard has going...
2011-07-14
528 reads
SELECT INTO and IDENTITY (or, BOL is Sorta Wrong)
I am easily distracted. Lucky for all of us, I tend to be distracted by cool tidbits in SQL Server...
2011-07-14
971 reads
Send SSRS subscription files to (Secured FTP) SFTP
We have set up subscription for customer which used to send mails to the customers periodically. Recently one of the...
2011-07-14
3,907 reads
SQL Saturday 89 Pre-Con
Why am I attending Kevin Kline’s pre-con on “Troubleshooting & Performance Tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2” at SQL Saturday #89...
2011-07-14
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Released
Microsoft has released the final build of SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. It includes fixes from SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Updates 1 through...
2011-07-14
1,352 reads
Backup and Restore SharePoint 2010 Site Collection with PowerShell
One of the most annoying processes with SharePoint is backing up a site collection. There is a build in tool...
2011-07-13
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Bad Admins: Attacking via Group Membership
This is a series of blog posts about how administrators can gain access to SQL Server, even if you try...
2011-07-13
1,874 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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