Reading in 2009
I saw a blog post from my friend Paul Randal recently in which he recounted the books he’d read in...
2010-01-31
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Blog Posts
Sql Server View
Views:- View can be described as virtual table which derived its data from one or more than one table columns.It...
2010-01-31
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Stored Procedure to Get SQL Job Execution Status
Introduction
Ever need a programmatic way to figure out if a SQL Agent job is running? I did. After spending a...
2010-01-31
2,541 reads
SEO my SQL Server Blog
I was going to spend today finishing off some SQL Server related blog posts, I currently have a list of...
2010-01-30
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Try Catch within an SSIS Script Tasks and Components
Using a Try/Catch/Finally within your Script Components and Script Tasks is just good coding practice. The thing you want to be able to do is push...
2010-01-30
2,589 reads
Book Review: The Breach
The Breach by Patrick Lee ($8 at Amazon) was a gift, and wasn’t quite what I expected based on the...
2010-01-29
1,430 reads
But We Have Always Done It That Way
I recently ran across the following scenario. A SQL Server instance had been upgraded from SQL Server 2005 to SQL...
2010-01-29
1,976 reads
Columbia Code Camp 2010
We're making a final push to let everyone know about the Columbia Code Camp 2010, which happens tomorrow, January 30....
2010-01-29
1,488 reads
Introduction: Developing with SQL Server
As a developer based primarily in the Microsoft world I have over the last 10 years spent time working with...
2010-01-29
1,318 reads
Paul Randal’s Benchmarking Series
Fellow SQL MVP Paul Randal of SQLSkills, (who is also Kimberly Tripp’s husband, and a former long-time Microsoft employee) has...
2010-01-29
2,750 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...
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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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?
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