SQL Server Security Audit (Part 1) - Server Level Audit
The first of this three part series on SQL Server Security Auditing focuses on the SQL Server itself and addressing any of its security vulnerabilities.
Overselling Yourself
Posting online is a way of building your own brand, but you need to be careful of overselling yourself. Steve Jones talks about being careful in the impressions you create from your online presence.
SQL Lunch with the Baton Rouge Area SQL Users Group
It's on Livemeeting and open to everyone. Get some lunch time training in with this group.
Overselling Yourself
Posting online is a way of building your own brand, but you need to be careful of overselling yourself. Steve Jones talks about being careful in the impressions you create from your online presence.
Overselling Yourself
Posting online is a way of building your own brand, but you need to be careful of overselling yourself. Steve Jones talks about being careful in the impressions you create from your online presence.
Overselling Yourself
Posting online is a way of building your own brand, but you need to be careful of overselling yourself. Steve Jones talks about being careful in the impressions you create from your online presence.
The Ghost in the Machine
Now that hierarchical data structures are popular again because of XML, their full hierarchical processing is still being limited to flat two dimensional linear path processing by relational processing. This will change when database professionals realize that ANSI SQL relational processing can now support full multipath nonlinear hierarchical processing.
Validate SQL Server Backups Exist with Policy Based Management
I recently submitted a tip regarding the existence of your backup files using the undocumented system stored procedure xp_fileexist. But how would you go about executing that script against all your SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 instances? I took that script and decided to go one step further using Policy Based Management to create a custom policy that you can then run against all your SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 instances.
Encryptionphobia
The battle to secure personal and business data is a tough one, and the consequences of mishandling sensitive data can be severe. In this guest editorial, John Magnabosco argues that it's high time people overcame their fear of encryption.
Theoretical Performance Issue Handling
Theoretical performance issue handling or handling theoretical performance issues from new author R. C. van Dijk.
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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