The Lighter Side - Life is like an analogy
Longtime SQL Server author and expert David Poole takes a break from SQL Server to bring us a few life lessons for software development.
The SQLServerCentral.com Party - 2008
Steve Jones talks a bit about the upcoming SQLServerCentral.com event at the 2008 PASS Summit and asks for some ideas.
Essential Steps for the Integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse, Part 2
This article describes what the dimension manager and fact provider do, and how to configure business intelligence tools to use the integrated EDW.
Modifying Microsoft Access Linked Tables from SQL Server
In a previous tip we saw how easy it was to link to SQL Server tables from Microsoft Access. As is the case with all systems, how does Access manage the changes? What happens when you modify the structure of the underlying SQL Server table? What happens to the SQL Server table if you delete the linked table in Access? We will look at each of these situations in this tip.
The CLR
The CLR was one of the highly touted additions to SQL Server 2005, and one of the reasons for its long development cycle. Steve Jones comments on why it hasn't been that widely used.
Encrypting Data
Encrypting data is the easy part of dealing with encryption and databases. Steve Jones talks about some of the other, more difficult, issues you must handle.
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PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
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A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
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Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
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SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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