How do you keep the passwords and keys for encrypted data safe? Steve Jones comments on the challenges of working with keys and passwords.

Starting Conversations - Part 2

by Andy Warren

SQLServerCentral.com

Blogs

A week or so ago I posted a note about reading How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends (worth reading), and I had a comment posted to the blog by author Don Gabor. I like that kind of follow up, so I sent Don a note and a ...

Take Advantage of In-Memory Analytics

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Intelligent Enterprise

Business Intelligence

Fast analysis, better insight and rapid deployment with minimal IT involvement: these are among the benefits of in-memory analytics, but different products are appropriate for different environments. Read our in-depth report on in-memory technologies.

All-Access

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

A licensing scheme from Embarcadero catches Steve Jones' eye. He comments on a great way for the company to work with customers.

Ethics and Leaders - Database Weekly (Apr 27, 2009)

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This week Steve Jones discusses ethics and leadership in IT.

Convert Implicit and the related performance issues with SQL Server

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MSSQLTips.com

Performance Tuning

I was a running a routine query using an equal operator on the only column of the primary key for a table and I noticed that the performance was terrible. These queries should have been flying because all I was doing was retrieving one row of data which should have been doing an index seek. When I looked at the query plan it was doing a scan instead. This tip shows you what I found and how to resolve the problem.

Security Basics - The C-I-A Triad

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral.com

Blogs

In the course of giving my security presentations over the past year, I've learned that quite a few folks have never seen the C-I-A triad before. The C-I-A triad stands for...