Protect and Monitor
How do you protect and monitor your databases? Auditing is one way, but Steve Jones thinks this subsystem in SQL Server needs to mature.
Conditional formatting with Reporting Services
In another article on the presentation layer aspects of reporting Services, Adam Aspin explains how to add conditional formatting to your reports
Do You Need an IT or CS Degree to be a Successful DBA?
MVP Brad McGehee explores the education of the typical DBA and what they have studied in the past.
Mastering SQL Server Profiler - Part 1: Introduction to Profiler Concepts
In this video written by MVP Brad McGehee you can learn how to get started using the Profiler GUI.
Access Your Data On Premise Or In The Cloud With ADO.NET Data Services
Web Services has been a hot topic for a number of years now, but what, you may wonder, are these Data Services everyone's talking about lately? As the architecture of Web applications has changed and matured (with the popularity of Rich Internet Applications [RIAs], for example), there has been an increased awareness of the value of exposing raw data, minus any interface or formatting, to any service or application that wants to consume it.
Flash
Flash. Flash Gordon. There have been a few "Flash"es in Steve Jones career, and the newest one looks interesting.
Flash
Flash. Flash Gordon. There have been a few "Flash"es in Steve Jones career, and the newest one looks interesting.
Flash
Flash. Flash Gordon. There have been a few "Flash"es in Steve Jones career, and the newest one looks interesting.
Security Basics: Defense-in-Depth
In my security presentations, another basic I talk about is defense-in-depth. The idea here is to produce multiple layers of protection against a particular attack. For instance, imagine malicious code against your home computer. This is a case where...
Using the OPENROWSET function in SQL Server
OPENROWSET is a handy tool for retrieving data. Find out how to use the OPENROWSET function for SQL Server and Microsoft Access.
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
Forums
The New Wave of Security Threats
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There's Too Much to Learn
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How to Calculate Distance Between Coordinates in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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