European PASS Conference 2008!

The next European PASS Conference will take place between the 14th - 16th of April 2008 in Neuss, Germany!

Service Pack 2a

Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005 has been updated to fix the maintenance plans issue.

Why Object Qualification is important.

You have all read about why object qualification is important. You also must have heard of why stored Proc should not have sp_ as prefix to the name. Now let us proove if this is all true.

Script to determine permissions in SQL Server 2005

Although a few different options (Management Studio, system stored procedures, system views, custom scripts, etc.) exist to determine your permissions in SQL Server, in this tip we want to outline the functionality from the fn_my_permissions table valued function.

The Social Contract

How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?

The Social Contract

How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?

The Social Contract

How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?

Trash Destination Adapter

The Trash Destination is now available for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The Trash Destination and this article came from early experiences of using SSIS and community feedback at the time. When developing a package it is very useful to have a destination adapter that does nothing but consume rows with no setup requirement.

Bad Meetings

The Daily Routine

Steve Jones compares his daily routine now to that of being a DBA.