SQL Saturday Advice - PhotoJournalism
I try to carry a camera, and a video camera, most of the time when I’m traveling. I have a...
2010-09-02
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Getting Drive Info Part 3, CLR
In the first two parts, (Part 1, Part 2), of the Getting Drive Info series the techniques to gather drive info with methods that will work on SQL Server...
2010-09-02
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Getting Drive Info Part 3, CLR
In the first two parts, (Part 1, Part 2), of the Getting Drive Info series the techniques to gather drive...
2010-09-02
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For SQL Server 2005/2008, Consider SecurityAdmin = SysAdmin
Note: Republishing because the article covering the issue and a workaround has been published here on SSC.
In a recent thread...
2010-09-01
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As a PASS Member, Don’t Forget to Vote in the 2010 PASS Board Elections
I just received my e-mail from PASS, which says, “As a PASS Member in Good Standing, you are entitled to...
2010-09-01
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Retrieving Report Names for SSRS Subscription Jobs
The way Reporting Services creates subscriptions is through generating a SQL Server Agent job. This is apparent when you look...
2010-09-01
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Naming Keys & Constraints
G'day,
This is pretty much my first blog post - at least on sqlservercentral.com - so to get started I thought that I'd...
2010-09-01
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A Stored Procedure to Move SSIS Packages Between Servers
This post provides the code for a stored procedure to move SSIS packages between SQL 2005 SSIS servers. Continue reading ?
The post A Stored Procedure to Move SSIS Packages...
2010-09-01
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A Stored Procedure to Move SSIS Packages Between Servers
This post provides the code for a stored procedure to move SSIS packages between SQL 2005 SSIS servers. Continue reading ?
2010-09-01
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A Stored Procedure to Move SSIS Packages Between Servers
Today’s post is one that I have been debating on whether to publish for a while. The purpose of the...
2010-09-01
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Backing Up a DMK
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