SQL Server Security Best Practices
Learn how to secure your data by implementing SQL Server security best practices.
Find The Baseball Players
Or how to query for a particular type of customer. This article examines how you may query for particular rows that match one condition, but may not match another.
Funny SQL Server Error Messages
This is the funniest error message Brian Knight has ever seen in SQL Server.
Using Uniqueindentifier Instead of Identity
Identity columns are last years news. Have you experimented with uniqueindentifiers - better known to programmers as GUID's? Guaranteed to be unique in the world, they offer a powerful alternative to identity columns.
DBCC SQLPERF (Logspace) Reporting Internals
This is a broad overview of the DBCC SQLPERF command primarily for version 7 and 2000.
Support for Network Database Files
By default, network database files are not supported with Microsoft SQL Server. Here's a workaround.
Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services Cell-Level Security
This article describes how SQL Server 7.0 (Service Pack 1) OLAP Services takes advantage of the user and group structure in Microsoft Windows NT to offer cell-level security, and describes several ways to tailor permissions to data across the enterprise.
Review: Professional SQL Server 2000 XML
Professional SQL Server 2000 XML - Find out if this book from Wrox is as interesting as it sounds.
Connection Pooling with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
This white paper describes how to use the connection pooling objects included with the Microsoft XML for Analysis Provider to develop scalable client and Web applications for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. (11 printed pages)
Blogs
DATEADD Truncates the Number Parameter: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
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Using SQLFluff
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Marketing Analyst: The Data-Driven Superhero Your Company Needs
Want to blend your love of marketing with the power of data? Becoming a...
Forums
Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using Python
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using...
Eliminate a function by writing out the code is now throwing an error
/* I'm trying to eliminate (write out) this function 'largest_date', but SQL Server 2016...
SQL Server Migration - Redirecting Old Instance Connections to New AG Listener
Hi everyone, I’ve been tasked with migrating a Standalone SQL Server instance to a...
Question of the Day
A Strange Choice
What is returned when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
CREATE TABLE CatIndex
( indexval VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.CatIndex (indexval) VALUES ('1'), ('2'), ('3')
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(indexval, cast('2025-01-01' AS DATE), CAST('2025-02-01' AS DATE), CAST('2025-03-01' AS DATE))
FROM dbo.CatIndex AS ci See possible answers