Indexed Views
Views are used quite often within SQL Server for a number of reasons. They can be used to restrict access...
2010-03-26
460 reads
Blog Posts
Learning About Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server
Among the Microsoft certifications, the Microsoft Certified Master is the apex of all of them except maybe the Microsoft Certified...
2010-03-26
1,676 reads
Simple Series : SSIS Conditional Split
Conditional Split is a very powerful component, enabling you to send records in different directions or exclude them from the downstream...
2010-03-26
915 reads
SQL Saturday - Columbia
I've talked about trying to do a SQL Saturday event in Columbia, SC, for the last couple of years, ever...
2010-03-26
674 reads
SQL Saturday #29 Presentations & Twittering
Tomorrow, I’m presenting a couple of sessions at SQLSaturday #29 in Birmingham, Alabama. Here are the presentation materials I’ll use.
SQL...
2010-03-26
562 reads
A Fan and a Friend
I went to the UK SQL Server User Group in Cambridge on Wednesday. I’m not sure it’s the Cambridge group...
2010-03-25
687 reads
Goodbye Live Spaces, Hello WordPress
After blogging on Live Spaces for a 517 days, I’ve made the difficult decision to move to my own domain...
2010-03-25
652 reads
Have a Question? Use the Forums
I try to keep a pretty tight lid on the comments to the blog because there's a lot of SPAM...
2010-03-25
531 reads
Managing the Size of the Security Cache (TokenAndPermUserStore) in SQL 2005
Introduction
In an earlier post I walked through the diagnosis of a problem with TokenAndPermUserStore bloat in SQL 2005.In this post...
2010-03-25
1,083 reads
Measuring Transactional Replication Latency Without Tracer Tokens
Measuring Transactional Replication Latency Without Tracer Tokens SQL Server 2005 introduced Tracer Tokens (SQL 2005 | SQL 2008), a new methodology for...
2010-03-25
7,100 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item This Week's AI Trust Problem...
Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
See possible answers