SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit
The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server 2008.
SQL Server Encryption - Protecting Files at Rest
You have a few options for protecting your SQL Server data at rest. So far I haven't seen anything thing protects data in memory, and I'm not sure we ever will. After all, at some point it needs to be processed, joined, etc., and that can't happen if it's well encrypted.
The Sports Salary
Are you happy with your salary? Are you happy with the way you negotiated it? Steve Jones asks if you might like a different salary structure.
The Sports Salary
Are you happy with your salary? Are you happy with the way you negotiated it? Steve Jones asks if you might like a different salary structure.
The Sports Salary
Are you happy with your salary? Are you happy with the way you negotiated it? Steve Jones asks if you might like a different salary structure.
Using The Data Profiler Task and FTP Task in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
See how the data preparation tasks within SSIS can be used to retrieve data or to validate the quality of data.
Decoding Micro-speak
MVP Brad McGegee spends a lot of time talking to people at Microsoft. He's learned how to interpret thier language, and understand what they mean when using certain terms.
Data Access Tracing in SQL Server 2008
Learn how to apply the new tracing functionality in Microsoft data access technologies such as ADO.NET 2.0, MDAC 2.82, SQL Server Native Client, and the JDBC driver; and in the SQL Server network protocols and the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine.
Dead Data
What happens to the data of a company if it goes out of business? Steve Jones has a little experience and says it might not be as simple as you think.
Dead Data
What happens to the data of a company if it goes out of business? Steve Jones has a little experience and says it might not be as simple as you think.
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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