Undocumented Stored Procedures in SQL Server 6.5
This article examines some useful undocumented stored procedures in SQL Server 6.5
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.
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GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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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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