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...
Ensuring that you can recover your server is critical. Chad Miller shows us how to accomplish daily backup monitoring and reporting.
Is the future for product releases and upgrades, to be synchronized with point releases? Steve Jones relishes the possibility.
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.
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.
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.
Birmingham (May 20), Pensacola (June 6), and Portland (June 6) are upcoming SQLSaturday events. If you are in the area, please attend.
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.
This article will review the processes for providing Operational Analytics via Microsoft Analysis Services, Informatica and Qlikview
Centralize SSIS configuration for multiple environments into one table.
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers