Found a Bug in SQL Server 2005
It doesn’t happen often but every once in a while you may be the lucky person to find a previously unknown bug in SQL Server.
Stacked Bar Chart for Analysis Services Data
Put the stacked bar chart to work in your own business environment. BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his hands-on introduction to Reporting Services charts based upon Analysis Services data sources.
The SQLServerCentral Track at SQL Connections
I'm happy to announce that SQLServerCentral is sponsoring a track at this year's SQL Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov 9-12, 2009. We're supplying the speakers, and picking the topics. If all goes well, we should be continuing this...
Backup Monitoring and Reporting
Ensuring that you can recover your server is critical. Chad Miller shows us how to accomplish daily backup monitoring and reporting.
Syncing Releases
Is the future for product releases and upgrades, to be synchronized with point releases? Steve Jones relishes the possibility.
Calling a Web Service from within SQL Server
One of the problems you might run into when building applications that consume web services is how you can use web services data within a SQL Server instance. Greg Larsen discusses how to do this within a stored procedure that only runs within the context of SQL Server.
Engine Separation of Duties for the Application Developer
Separation of duties is an important consideration for databases and database applications. By properly defining schemas and roles, you can create a distinction between users who can manipulate data from those that administer the database. This paper discusses the topics of which application developers should be aware and provides a heuristic example to guide you in achieving separation of duties.
Security Basics: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege Properly
Whenever I do a security presentation, I make sure to cover the Principle of Least Privilege. And when I do I boil it down to this very simple definition: Giving the rights to do the job. No more. No less.
SQLSaturday Events Coming Soon
Birmingham (May 20), Pensacola (June 6), and Portland (June 6) are upcoming SQLSaturday events. If you are in the area, please attend.
How to Become an Exceptional DBA
Brad McGehee provides a "career guide" for DBAs. It is intended both to help prospective DBAs find a "way in" to the profession, and to advise existing DBAs on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.
Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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