Protecting the Encryption Keys
When you deal with encryption in your database, Steve Jones thinks you add a layer of complexity to your backup and recovery process. Do you agree? Answer today's poll.
Protecting the Encryption Keys
When you deal with encryption in your database, Steve Jones thinks you add a layer of complexity to your backup and recovery process. Do you agree? Answer today's poll.
Protecting the Encryption Keys
When you deal with encryption in your database, Steve Jones thinks you add a layer of complexity to your backup and recovery process. Do you agree? Answer today's poll.
An interview with Josef Richberg - The Exceptional DBA of 2009
Josef Richberg, a DBA with HarperCollins Publishers, has been selected by judges and the DBA community as winner of 2009’s Exceptional DBA Awards, sponsored by Red Gate Software. Freelance writer Bob Cramblitt spoke to Richberg about the role of the DBA and the importance of sharing knowledge with the community.
FILESTREAM Setup and Testing without Visual Studio
A new article that shows a brief example of the FILESTREAM feature in SQL Server 2008 from new author Hugh Thomas. It looks at creating objects for testing, and importing a sample image.
Getting rid of SQL Code
Joe becomes intrigued by the way that experts make errors in any area of technology, and suggests that the problem is more that of mindsets than lack of knowledge. He illustrates the point with SQL Development by means of the "Britney Spears, Automobiles and Squids" table, and the tangled Stored procedure, and shows ways of getting rid of both procedural and non-procedural code by adopting a different programming mindset.
Indexing HierarchyID
The new HierarchyID datatype in SQL Server 2008 has captured my interest lately. I’ve been working on a presentation that...
Parameterized Queries
Previous T-SQL best practices articles have discussed different coding styles that led to slow and fast query executions, and ways to minimize cached plans. This article will be an extension on those concepts, focusing on how the SQL Server optimizer tries to parameterize a query if it can, as well as how you can build your own parameterized query.
Squeezing the DBA
What do you do as a DBA if you get asked to cook the books? With the economy doing poorly, some executives will be tempted to mis-report earnings and they might ask the technical people to help. Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
Squeezing the DBA
What do you do as a DBA if you get asked to cook the books? With the economy doing poorly, some executives will be tempted to mis-report earnings and they might ask the technical people to help. Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Forums
Pro SQL Server Internals
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SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
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Running SQLCMD II
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers