Creating and Modifying Tables in SSMS - SQL School Video
Learn how to use the SSMS GUI to modify tables in this SQL School video.
The SQL Bailout
With all the bailouts being requested in the US, where is the money for DBAs who need it?
Adoption
Are lots of people adopting SQL Server 2008? Should you be looking at it? Steve Jones has a few comments on what the new lifecycle of SQL Server might mean for DBAs and developers.
Adoption
Are lots of people adopting SQL Server 2008? Should you be looking at it? Steve Jones has a few comments on what the new lifecycle of SQL Server might mean for DBAs and developers.
Adoption
Are lots of people adopting SQL Server 2008? Should you be looking at it? Steve Jones has a few comments on what the new lifecycle of SQL Server might mean for DBAs and developers.
Mapping Database Principals to Server Principals
A question on the forum asked how to find all the database mappings for a particular login. If you're on SQL Server 2000 or below, the tables you want to use are syslogins in the master database and sysusers in each database.
SQL Server Encryption Key Management between Development, Test and Production Environments
The company I work for has decided to use the encryption technology available in SQL Server 2005. We have almost everything ironed out except for which keys to use in the development, testing, and production environments. Should we use one key for all three environments or different keys for each?
The Safe and Easy Way to Delete All Data in a SQL Server DB
Deleting all the data in a SQL Server database doesn't have to involve complex code. The undocumented stored procedure sp_MSForEachTable safely bypasses built-in limitations to accomplish this common task.
You Must Trust Your DBAs
This is a follow-on post to You Must Trust Someone. My point in that post was to establish that being able to and and actually trusting your account and server administrators is a necessity. I didn't go into the business aspect of that, but basically it boils down to having a good selection process for candidates, checking out their references, ...
A Cloudy Week - Database Weekly (Mar 2, 2009)
There has been a lot of news about cloud computing this past week, including an announcement about SQL Server.
Blogs
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Forums
PostgreSQL String Functions Part 1
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Working Better Under Pressure
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Identities and Sequences V
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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