Awarded – Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2012
Today, I’ve received an email from Microsoft stating that I’ve been awarded Microsoft Community Contributor. This is the first time...
2012-10-18
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DBA Study Guide
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Hello Dear Reader, over here at Pragmatic Works we’ve been growing like weeds. For the most part we are looking...
2012-10-18
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On Source Control
A mention today from Jamie Thomson in his blog on source control. I left a comment, but it was long,...
2012-10-18
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Should a placement firm tell you what they are billing the client?
As a 1099 consultant, I usually use a placement firm to find a contract job. I always ask the placement...
2012-10-18
1,206 reads
Virtualizing Your Business Critical SQL Servers – Free Boot Camp by House of Brick – Update
Just before SQL PASS Summit in November, House of Brick and I will be holding a free boot camp (update – link removed after event was...
2012-10-18
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Important Alerts for SQL Server
One of the things that I think is extremely important for DBAs and really anyone that has to administer a...
2012-10-18
2,431 reads
SQL Audit – User-defined Audit Events
One thing I failed to touch on during my series on SQL Audit was the use of user-defined events in...
2012-10-18
3,241 reads
Upcoming Webinar: Building Dynamic SSRS Reports with Analysis Services
Join me next week for a really fun presentation on building Dynamic SSRS
reports using Analysis Services cubes as a...
2012-10-18
1,611 reads
SQL Server # Database Backup Report using T-SQL
Today, I am going to share few very useful scripts which will report us on Database Backup from different view...
2012-10-18
7,069 reads
UDL files with TRUSTED authentication - a security risk?
Hi everyone,
So the other day on twitter in #sqlhelp and privately with some friends at Microsoft and elsewhere I had...
2012-10-18
899 reads
Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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