Pop Quiz - What's the Max Number of Resultsets Supported by Management Studio?
Ran across this strange occurence while doing some testing. To duplicate the results (the actual code was a little more...
2008-05-20
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Blog Posts
Review of How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005
SQL Server MVP Frank Kalis has posted a short review on How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005, a...
2008-05-20
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Answers To DBA Interview Questions
Here are your answers to the questions from last week You should get some variation of what I have given...
2008-05-19
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Answers To SSIS Interview Questions
This is just a starting point for you to prepare for your interview so make sure not to limit yourself...
2008-05-19
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Collation Issues
This is really interesting to me:
CREATE TABLE #TEMP (name varchar(80))
INSERT INTO #TEMP values ('Malteser Schloßschule')
INSERT INTO #TEMP values ('Malteser...
2008-05-19
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SSIS Interview Questions
I have decided to make a short series of blogs about possible interview questions to help you prepare for an...
2008-05-19
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Technical Podcasts I Listen To
There are a few podcasts I tend to listen to as I have time. Since I work with a wide...
2008-05-19
4,044 reads
Managing & Professional Development Classes
I've been working on a rough outline for two new classes that will each be one day long. One on...
2008-05-18
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Giving a Presentation?
As a president of a local PASS chapter, one of the things I've struggled with is getting "locals" to give...
2008-05-17
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Setting Static Ports when dealing with Named Instances and Kerberos
I ran across this a week or so ago. There were a couple of SQL Servers running named instances that...
2008-05-17
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers