In 2012, It’s Me and Vanilla Ice
Like many others, I’m planning a few changes for my life for next year. I’m a believer in finding one’s...
2011-12-27
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Revamping Surat User Group
Dear Friends, we had a user group meeting last week – I and Vinay Pugalia was here. We have discussed many...
2011-12-26
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SQL MCM Study Group
Over the last few days, you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of talk about a SQL Server...
2011-12-26
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Backing up the Service Master Key
Making a backup of your Service Master Key (SMK) should be one of the first things that you do if...
2011-12-26
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SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 11
On December 19, 2011, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 11 (CU11), which is Build 10.50.1807.0. I...
2011-12-26
1,473 reads
Webcast: Putting a Better SQL Server in Production
Webcast: Putting a Better SQL Server in Production
Production Line
Webcast:Putting a Better SQL Server in Production
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:00...
2011-12-26
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 4
On December 19, 2011, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 4 (CU4), which is Build 10.50.2796. I...
2011-12-26
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Dynamic Sorting in SSRS
Introduction
Many times while developing any report we come across a situation where we need to SORT the TABLE columns or...
2011-12-30 (first published: 2011-12-26)
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SQL Server A to Z – YEAR
SELECT 'Happy '+ DATENAME(dw, GETDATE())Welcome to the penultimate installment of SQL Server A to Z (it’s not often I get to...
2012-01-02 (first published: 2011-12-26)
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Twas The Week After Christmas....
Holiday Greetings to all you DBA's and SQL Server professionals! This blog goes out to all of you who are on-call...
2011-12-26
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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
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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