or our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we selected Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been so successful in the past year with his books and presentations. How does he manage to pack so much into his life? We sent Richard Morris to find out.
Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.
One of the most underused features in SSMS is the additional templates that are available for MDX, DMX, and XMLA....
After several tries I think we finally have it working. If you were unable to attend the last two SQLLunches,...
If your company needs to go through a SOX (Sarbanes–Oxley) audit or any security audit, the DBA has to provide security information to them. If you have purchased third party tools to provide this information that is great. If you don't have third party tools and need to go through many servers to provide this information it can be a hassle and very time consuming. So I put together a script to generate a report that I could just review. The script generates a report of all elevated level accounts and any possible security holes.
Software licensing can be complex and confusing. Even in Windows and SQL Server, where hard limits are not enforced, people have problems determining how they should license software. Steve Jones talks about what vendors could do to help us.
It seems that the ownership of jobs is something that is often overlooked when articles explain
The Worktamer conference is coming to a series of cities in Canada in early 2010. If you're near Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal, read about this one day event to help you boost your professional development.
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
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