MS, kill Begin/End!
It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too...
2007-11-29
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Another use of OpenRowSet()
From time to time, I need to dump out the result from a SP, such as sp_lock or sp_who.
Traditionally,...
2007-11-29
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Why Don't People Go to Free Training?
I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...
2007-11-28
1,426 reads
Google CIO and IT Strategy
CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...
2007-11-26
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Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms
I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...
2007-11-26
1,367 reads
Passed 70-431
After putting it off for six months, I finally took - and passed - 70-431 yesterday. I know, I'm probably one of...
2007-11-25
1,452 reads
Honeypots in the Database
As a follow up to my post about Cesar Cerrudo's new whitepaper, earlier this month David Litchfield talked about putting...
2007-11-23
2,352 reads
Whitepaper on Malware to Attack Databases
Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss Information Security has put out a new whitepaper (.pdf format), Data0: Next generation malware for stealing...
2007-11-23
1,981 reads
Buying a New Cell Phone
For the page 10 months or so I've been using a Samsung Blackjack, before that I used various Blackberries for...
2007-11-21
1,443 reads
Logging Server Reboots - What the Heck MS?
Maybe someone at MS can explain this; they have that nice dialog that comes up after a reboot where you...
2007-11-21
1,411 reads
Blogs
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...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
By SQLPals
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers