Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They Stop You
A new article from MSDN magazine on stopping SQL Injection attacks by examining how the SQL can be exploited. It's a good basic article for developers as well as DBAs who might have to review code.
Unearth the New Data Mining Features of Analysis Services 2005
An article from Microsoft Journal looking at the new Mining features of SQL Server 2005. If you're interested in Analysis Services, this ias a good look (from a high level) at the next version.
DB Change Management - An Automated Approach - Part 4
The final installment in Darren Fuller's series on change management in SQL Server. If you haven't read the others, be sure to go through them before reading this one to learn how automating your version control in SQL Server is needed for any development shop.
How To Find SQL Server Objects
SQL Server can grow to encompass hundreds of databases on a single server, each having hundreds or thousands of objects within it. A truly scalable RDBMS. However, how many times have you been searching through the Object Browser in QA or the left pane in Enterprise Manager searching for an object? New Author Ashish Kaushal gives us a method to easily search your server for that long lost object.
Analyzing Data Storage - Ten SHOWCONTIG Queries
Analyzing the data storage in SQL Server databases is a bit of an art. It's a skill that takes some time to develop given that the tools are rather limited. DBCC SHOWCONTIG is one of the few ways in which you can get some insight into how SQL Server has structured your table on the disk. Joe Sack brings us another of his top xxx techniques with his ten queries that you can use to analyze the results of this command.
Review: MyLittleAdmin
SQL Server has great client side tools, Query Analyzer, Enterprise Manager, for working with your server and managing it. But how many times have you wished for a web interface because you didn't have VPN or didn't want to give rights to a developer. Or maybe you host clients' databases on your server and don't want one person to see another's databases. Read this review by someone who actually uses this product.
Using DMO to Enable and Disable Triggers
This short article shows you how to use SQL-DMO to enable or disable all the triggers in a database.
DB Change Management: An Automated Approach - Part 3
Part 3 of Darren Fuller's series on automating change management for SQL Server. A must read if you perform development and need a system to ensure that all changes are tracked.
SQL Server Alerts
SQL Server Alerts provide a great way for the server to notify a DBA that some event has occurred, usually something bad that they need to fix. However alerts can also be used to drive business logic processes and enable some types of actions to be safely performed without requiring extraordinary rights by a user. Author Leo Peysakhovich brings us some ideas on how we can use alerts to implement business logic processing.
First Impressions of SQL Server 2005: Installation and Tools
Brian Knight has started a new series base on his impressions of SQL Server 2005, Beta 2, aka "Yukon". Read about his first impressions of the product as he starts down the path of learning about the next version of SQL Server.
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Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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