Great Read on the Difficulty of Computer Security
The SANS Internet Storm Center has a great handler post about working at the Abuse department for an ISP:
Securing a...
2008-08-04
800 reads
Moving TempDB Posted on SQLServerCentral.com
Moving Tempdb isn't a common operation, and mercifully a simple one if it comes to that. As in much of...
2008-08-04
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oPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (Aug 5, 2008)
We've got two technical sessions scheduled for tomorrow night. The first is by long time oPASS member Dolores Tofel discussing...
2008-08-03
322 reads
Cold backup and remote control of sql server services
I recently got a request to do a "cold" backup of a small yet complex db environment, I say "small" because...
2008-08-02
726 reads
You Hired Good People, Right?
In the current issue of Redmond magazine there's an interesting story in the Never Again column. It's titled:
Listen to the...
2008-08-02
930 reads
Filestream and Full-Text Issues
I'm tech editing a book on Full-Text Search for SQL Server 2008 and the last few weeks have been quite...
2008-08-01
1,292 reads
Nmap 4.68 Available
The network scanner Nmap has a new version out, 4.68. The GUI interface (Zenmap) which comes with the Windows installer version...
2008-08-01
579 reads
SQLSaturday Update (Aug 1, 2008)
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. 85 registered, venue locked in, and work under way for fund raising via...
2008-08-01
564 reads
Tool Review: Hamachi VPN
Maybe I haven't looked at the right products, but two years ago when we needed a VPN solution there wasn't...
2008-07-31
1,506 reads
Members speaking at User Groups
The Midlands PASS chapter is approaching two years old. We've had some great speakers from the outside like MVPs Brian...
2008-07-31
1,700 reads
Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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