The Window Is Shrinking
Today Steve talks about security and the fact that your window for lax security is shrinking for new applications.
Today Steve talks about security and the fact that your window for lax security is shrinking for new applications.
This article looks to provide a method that you can use to collect the author's top 10 SQL Server performance metrics automatically over time.
Steve Jones examines one of the issues of foreign chip production: security. Will this be an attack vector in the future?
"Counting" is essential to many high performance code techniques. SQL Server MVP, Jeff Moden, shows us how to make sure that we're "Counting" and not "Crippling" our trick-code.
Read the input string and break each sentence into groups of 5 words. A row may contain more than one sentence. Each sentence in the input should start a new group.
Brad's noticed that there are fewer good books about SQL Server on the shelves, and asks which books you'd recommend to people who are new to SQL Server
Script tasks are a great way of extending SSIS functionality, when none of the built-in components are quite right for the task you need to perform. But how to go about creating a script task? No worries, once again Robert Sheldon is on hand to provide easy instructions on how to do it.
Read more about how you can get a free two user license from SourceGear and Red Gate Software.
Find out what you need to learn for the SQL Server 2008 Administration certification exams.
SQL Server ships with the tablediff utility which can be used to compare the data in two tables. Read this article to learn it step-by-step:
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Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers