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  • RE: Google FUD

    A-Good-Thing: It's also possible to fix OS level bugs, without having to go back to the supplier.

    It may or may not be cheaper, you get the OS for free, but...

  • RE: Randomizing Result Sets with NEWID

    For the purpose of the article, you probably want to select all customers with order_count >= min(order_count of top 10). That way you don't exclude customers that sort 'later'...

  • RE: Finding Passwords

    Robert.Smith (9/9/2009)


    The issue is not so much the specific vulnerability as the fact that some developer at Microsoft didn't think it was a problem to store passwords in memory as...

  • RE: Finding Passwords

    from the faq @ http://www.sentrigo.com/passwordizer-faq

    Are all user logins affected?

    The vulnerability exists only when using mixed authentication in the SQL Server, which is typically used by DBA’s, system administrators,...

  • RE: Reporting Data Loss

    Even though the cards were returned, you can't be sure they weren't skimmed and duplicated while they were out of your sight. It's a good think the cards are...

  • RE: The Burden of Proof

    I agree with Jereme: Any code that is used in governmental procedures (law enforcement, voting, etc) should be inspectable. If you think about it any work generated by the state...

  • RE: Do We Need a PK?

    An audit table perhaps? i.e. a copy of the master table with extra columns for 'operation, datetime, userid'. You could then make a 4+ column primary key, but...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 22 Aug 2007

    *sigh* errata yesterday and today

  • RE: Question of the Day for 21 Aug 2007

    FYI: It's sync_method and not synch_method.

  • RE: Back Up Your Database With USB

    Why RAID 1, with what? Are you doing the RAID with two partitions on the same drive? How does that help? If the drive fails, it fails, and...

  • RE: Converting Hexadecimal String Values to Alpha (ASCII) Strings

    or you can build the entire update string at once:

    declare @sql nvarchar(4000)

    set @sql = ''

    select @sql = @sql + ' update #HexToAlpha set alphastring = convert(varchar, 0x' + hexstring +...

  • RE: My Projects Have Never Failed

    Yegh, what a lack of responsibility. As Stewart said, development is a team process - that includes your client. SPECIFICATIONS, Feedback meetings and demos are a good way...

  • RE: Ten Ways To Lose Your DBA Job

    I use KeePass as my Password Safe. It seems to have more features than the Password Safe you linked to. It also has up-to-date contributed builds for...

  • RE: Replicating Identity Columns

    "Not for replication" identity columns exist in SQL 2000 too, the article makes it sound like they're new in 2005.

  • RE: Instant Querying

    With XMPP (Jabber) the IM messages are 100% XML. This allows you to do anything you can imagine. It even supports tabular results to be shown directly to...

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