PASS Summit Attendees: Remember to Network and Maintain
Previously, when I had attended conferences, I had used them to attend as many seminars or talks as I could...
2011-10-10
1,410 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Advanced Persistent Threats and Us
In a blog post from last year, Richard Bejtlich (blog | twitter) talked about a concept called an Advanced Persistent Threat...
2011-10-07
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Detecting Security Updates on Vista/Windows 7/2008/2008R2
When trying to detect whether updates have been installed or not, there were several places we investigated:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UninstallHKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\HotFixHKLM\Software\Microsoft\UpdatesSome updates still write to...
2011-10-06
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Two Great Talks on the State of Internet Security
Recently I've started following the public work of Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. I've known...
2011-10-05
1,034 reads
Have end users who need an introduction to SQL Server book?
At the beginning of this year, my introductory text to SQL Server, appropriately titled Introduction to SQL Server, became available for sale....
2011-09-19
1,320 reads
Looking to interact with those proficient in Japanese
In the 1970s my mother and her younger sister married U.S. Marines. Both came to the States when their husbands...
2011-09-12
785 reads
Don't Wait to Start Blogging
I was reading a post by Jonathan Fields (blog | twitter) about making bad guitars. Okay, so what does that have to...
2011-08-15
2,246 reads
Have the Time? Get in the Game.
This year there's a two step process for electing members to the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Board of Directors...
2011-08-11
880 reads
T-SQL Tuesday/Wednesday #21: A Crappy Workaround
A long time ago (in IT terms) in a galaxy far, far away I was helping an organization with a...
2011-08-10
2,062 reads
Functionality and User Experience are important, too
There are a few posts and articles around the security-scape lately concluding Windows 7 is more secure than OS X,...
2011-08-09
805 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
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