Designing a Flexible Task Management Database
In this article by Jamie Voss, he shows the methodology he used to develop his task management database.
SQL Security Resource Center Opens
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Freeware Product : ASPReport
It provides an infrastructure to create and manage various SQL Server stored procedure based reports into HTML output. You can add reports, categorize them in a treeview, edit, delete and manage the report parameters - all through the web interface. Members can now download this as Freeware at SQLServerCentral.com.
Understanding Your Identity
Is the Identity property part of a transaction? I always thought so, but decided to test it and see what happens.
How Dynamic SQL Can Be Static SQL Part 2
This article shows you how to use the CASE function to design single query solutions that have changing results depending on the values you assign to variables. These techniques are extremely useful as alternatives to dynamic SQL.
Version Control for Stored Procedures
Version control for stored procedures isn't always popular and certainly isn't easy. Or can it be? Andy discusses a technique he used on a recent project that you might find interesting.
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Multi-Server Administration
Multi server administration allows you to create jobs and maintenance plans once. You can then monitor and change them from one SQL Server. View job histories and statuses for 2, 4, 10, or more SQL Servers from one master SQL Server. See how you can simplify your administration duties with multi server administration.
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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