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Do you work with Visual Studio?

Red Gate is doing some research into Visual Studio add-ins for SQL development. If you can spare a moment to complete a short survey, or are interested in being part of the early access program (linked from the end of the survey), please click here.

2011-11-30

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7 Preventable Backup Errors

The loss of a company's data is often enough to put the company out of business; and yet backup errors are generally avoidable with the application of common sense rather than deep technical knowledge. Grant digs into memories of his long experience of giving forum advice, to come up with the most easily preventable backup errors.

2011-11-29

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SQL Server stored procedure to generate random passwords

SQL Server is used to support many applications and one such feature of most applications is the storage of passwords. Sometimes there is a need to reset a password using a temporary password or generate a random password for a new user. In this tip I cover a simple stored procedure to generate random passwords that can be incorporated into your applications.

2011-11-25

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