Social Engineering Dangers
Social engineering is one of the most effective ways to hack information out of a company. Steve Jones looks at this technique and a recent contest at DefCon that featured social engineering.
Ways to minimize sort operations
In this article Brian Ellul explorea how it's possible to eliminate the SORT operator (and its performance cost) on performing SELECTS statements.
Issuing Current Time Increments in StreamInsight (A Practical Example)
The issuing of a Current Time Increment, Cti, in StreamInsight is very definitely one of the most important concepts to learn if you want your Streams to be responsive. A full discussion of how to issue Ctis is beyond the scope of this article but a very good explanation in addition to Books Online can be found in these three articles by a member of the StreamInsight team at Microsoft, Ciprian Gerea.
SQL Saturday #49 - Orlando
A free, one day training event taking place on October 16, 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Inside the Optimizer: Constructing a Plan - Part 3
Join Paul White in part three of a four-part series exploring the internals of query optimization as he looks at the rules that are used to build the execution plan.
More Than SQL
Today Steve Jones talks about the upcoming SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado, and how it's encompassing more than just a day of SQL learning.
SQL Saturday #55 - San Diego
The first SQL Saturday in San Diego kicks off fall with a full day of free SQL Server information, lectures, and seminars from the experts on the West Coast.
SQL Social - Kent, UK
Andrew Calvett talks Analysis Services for the September meeting of the Kent SQL Server user's group.
Synchronizing SQL Server and SQL Azure
SQL Azure Data Sync provides data synchronization between the cloud and local SQL Server databases. Learn how SQL Azure Data Sync allows you to keep the most concurrent information in the cloud while allowing mobile users, businesses, and enterprise data sources all to have access to this data.
Getting Fired from an Unpaid Job.
Phil Factor initially brooded about being fired from a job he was just doing unpaid to help out. Then he suddenly realized that they were probably right.
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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