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A woman sues Best Buy for $54million. That's absurd, but her laptop is worth more than the hardware.
A woman sues Best Buy for $54million. That's absurd, but her laptop is worth more than the hardware.
A woman sues Best Buy for $54million. That's absurd, but her laptop is worth more than the hardware.
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know. This editorial was originally published on Feb 28, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday.
Auditing activities on your database servers becomes more important all the time. But ensuring that schema changes do not occur without your knowledge may be more important for a stable system. James Greaves brings us a great technique using DDL triggers for doing this.
Everyone should establish some sort of naming convention for their SQL Server platform. It helps to ensure that developers and DBAs can easily find objects and communicate with one another. New author Michael Lato brings us the start of a series on organizing your SQL Server code with an article on naming conventions.
This article is a step-by-step checklist to help ensure that you are obtaining the maximum performance possible from SQL Server Analysis Services.
Discover the new Analysis Services 2005 drillthrough architecture. See how to set up drillthrough in Analysis Services 2005 and get guidance on migrating drillthrough settings from Analysis Services 2000 databases.
As a SQL Server DBA or developer, how do you measure the success of your projects? What about your users? Here is an interesting look by Janet Wong at a few of her projects and how their success was perceived. See if any of your experiences are similar.
Discusses Index Selection impact when functions are wrapped around WHERE clause filtering columns
Steve Jones takes a look at the world of energy news and a few projects out at the ranch.
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By Brian Kelley
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We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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