2022-04-05 (first published: 2022-04-04)
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Administration
Easily Repeating Work
There are many ways to work more efficiently, but tracking and saving your work might be one of the best.
2022-03-28
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2022-03-14
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2022-02-14
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2022-02-09
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2022-01-22
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2022-01-19
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How to (Somewhat) Increase SQL Server Security
Problem Some time ago Argenis Fernandez(@DBArgenis) found and described a vulnerability that allows you to get into SQL Server with 'sa' rights. This method does not require a restart of the SQL Server service or the whole machine, the condition is a local administrator account on the server. Reminder SQL Server until 2008R2: Until SQL 2008R2, […]
2022-01-03
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SQL Server instance startup type check by SQL script
I have developed the script to check SQL Server instances startup type, sometimes we didn't know all our SQL instances startup type correctly configurated, especially we cannot distinguish the Automatic and Automatic(Delayed Start) from the direct query, the only way is querying from the registry, you can use this script in your environment to bulk […]
2021-12-24
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The Challenge of Edge Security
We will see databases deployed on the edge, and we will need strong security patches.
2021-12-20
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers