What do you do with a new SQL Server?
This article highlights some basic steps to take when you have a new install of SQL Server or take over support of existing databases.
Close these Loopholes - Reproduce Database Errors
This is the final part of Alex's ground-breaking series on unit-testing Transact-SQL code. Here, he shows how you can test the way that your application handles database-related errors such as constraint-violations or deadlocks. With a properly-constructed test-harness you can ensure that the end-user need never see the apparent gobbledegook of database system error messages, and that they are properly and robustly handled by the application.
Security Overview for Database Administrators
SQL Server 2008 is secure by design, default, and deployment. Microsoft is committed to communicating information about threats, countermeasures, and security enhancements as necessary to keep your data as secure as possible. This paper covers some of the most important security features in SQL Server 2008. It tells you how, as an administrator, you can install SQL Server securely and keep it that way, even as applications and users make use of the data stored within.
The Vacation Dilemma
Does vacation cause extra stress at your job before or after you leave? Steve Jones asks a poll question this Friday to see how you feel.
The Vacation Dilemma
Does vacation cause extra stress at your job before or after you leave? Steve Jones asks a poll question this Friday to see how you feel.
The Vacation Dilemma
Does vacation cause extra stress at your job before or after you leave? Steve Jones asks a poll question this Friday to see how you feel.
Audit Database Changes in the Real World
Tjay Belt brings us a story of how auditing was actually implemented and a discussion of why particular decisions were made.
Entity Framework: The Cribsheet
Prasanna Amirthalingam provides an overview of Entity Framework and how it can be used. He shows that it can provide an excellent interface between the Object-oriented model and the relational. The Entity Framework allows developers to work with data in the form objects and properties without having to concern themselves directly with either the stored procedures or functions of the defined interface, or the the underlying database tables and columns where this data is stored.
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers