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Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008

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There is considerable evidence that successful data warehousing projects often produce a very high return on investment. Over the years a great deal of information has been collected about the factors that lead to a successful implementation versus an unsuccessful one. These are encapsulated here into a set of best practices, which are presented with particular reference to the features in SQL Server 2008.

2008-09-12

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Free Webcast Today: SQL Server Security Best Practices

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Join SQLServerCentral.com co-founder Brian Knight for this free webcast on SQL Server security best practices. In this session on Technet, we will look at how to protect your system from internal and external security factors. We will look at the types of permissions in your database objects, implementing column and row-level security, and protecting yourself from SQL Injection attacks. We'll also cover best practices for basic and advanced protection for your SQL Server system.

2003-04-02

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Free Webcast: SQL Server 2000 Security Best Practices

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Join SQLServerCentral.com co-founder for this free webcast on SQL Server security best practices. In this session, we will look at how to protect your system from internal and external security factors. We will look at the types of permissions in your database objects, implementing column and row-level security, and protecting yourself from SQL Injection attacks. We'll also cover best practices for basic and advanced protection for your SQL Server system.

2003-03-27

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Multiple Escape Characters

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):

SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
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