We sometimes find ourselves in situations that we didn't count on. Or that aren't necessarily a mistake we made in the installation. Steve Jones reminds us that we should keep that in mind when someone is asking for our help.
This week Mobile BI is on the radar at Microsoft. Steve Jones comments on what this might mean for the database people in the future.
The fifth installment of Arshad Ali's series examines the spatial data types in SQL Server 2008. These new types allow the use of geospatial data in SQL Server applications.
Perhaps we need to protect more data, according to Steve Jones. With the ability to identify most people with 10 digits of information, Steve Jones asks you to really think about what you need to store.
This article, the third in the T-SQL Best Practices series, discusses how to write your code to promote cached plan re-usage. Understanding how white space and comments impact whether a plan is cached or an existing plan is re-used can help you minimize the number of plans your application is caching.
When diagnosing issues in SQL Server I've found that sometimes I need to be able to mimic a user's session state when attempting to repeat an error they may be receiving. The smallest differences can completely change the outcome, so I need to ensure all the session settings (QUOTED_IDENTIFIER, ANSI_NULLS, and so forth) are identical between the production session and my test session. Is there an easy way to determine these settings with a single query?
Perhaps we need to protect more data, according to Steve Jones. With the ability to identify most people with 10 digits of information, Steve Jones asks you to really think about what you need to store.
Perhaps we need to protect more data, according to Steve Jones. With the ability to identify most people with 10 digits of information, Steve Jones asks you to really think about what you need to store.
Perhaps we need to protect more data, according to Steve Jones. With the ability to identify most people with 10 digits of information, Steve Jones asks you to really think about what you need to store.
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