SQL Server security: Database roles
Database roles for SQL servers can increase the security of your enterprise. Understand how to set up database roles, and learn how they function.
Writing to an operating system file using the SQL Server SQLCLR
Reading files from the operating system can be done with T-SQL as I showed in the tip Using OPENROWSET to read large files into SQL Server. What if you want to write to an operating system file? For example, writing to a text file. There's no T-SQL that supports writing to a file.
Creating a Synonym for a Table - SQL School Video
New in SQL Server 2005, Synonyms replace aliases from previous versions. Brian Knight shows how they can be created and used.
Log Shipping Cannot Access the File
New author Brian Bitzer brings us a solution to a log shipping problem in the Real World. Read about jhow one DBA solves a contention issue using SSIS.
Missing row numbers
I had a request from a client who prints a lot of cheques each month and there control over the cheques went a bit haywire. The requested me to create some controls in their system to make sure that the cheques are use in cheque number sequence.
Secure Cell Phones
With the inauguration of a new President in the US, will he give up his Blackberry? Steve Jones found an alternative that was surprising.
Sorting MSDB package folders
If you use the MSDB package store in SSIS 2005, you may have noticed that the folders are not sorted in any friendly way, it is actually just the order they were added. You end up with something like the left-hand example below
SQL Server Integration Services an Introduction - Part 1
This article is part 1 of a 4 part series that introduces how SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) can be used as a platform for building high performance data integration and workflow solutions
Spring Clean Your Database Schema
The utility described in this article allows you to quickly identify which columns have mismatched data types across tables in a database. Correcting these will improve performance etc.
Surface Possibilities
The Surface is Microsoft's tabletop computer that can be controlled with your hands and doesn't require a keyboard. Is there value in this system for DBAs?
Blogs
SQL Server Journey (Part 1)- Enterprise Database 2016
By Vinay Thakur
Continued thinking about my Journey blog where we have to look back at the...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences II
In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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