Software Projects: the important boring bits
Phil Factor on the sort of boring expertise that will help you thrive as a consultant.
We Still Need Human Judgment
Computers aren't necessarily more infallible than humans, and they aren't necessarily even going to make better decisions. We still need humans in the decision process.
How to troubleshoot SSL encryption issues in SQL Server
Tibor Nagy explains how to find the root cause of SSL encryption configuration problems in Microsoft SQL Server.
Overcoming Proposal Objections
We have all had our innovative solutions and proposals shot down by leads, managers and directors. This article addresses some of the causes and tips to improving the success rate for getting your ideas into the priority list.
What, When and who? Auditing 101
In this article we will take a look at one of the new technology that was introduced in SQL Server 2008 for Auditing.
The SQL Scrabble Puzzle
An enhancement to a Phil Factor puzzle gives you a chance to play scrabble in T-SQL.
Webinar: Performance Tuning .NET & SQL Code Using ANTS Performance Profiler
In this LIDNUG webinar, Mitchel Sellers walks through performance tuning best practices, and investigates how developers can use ANTS Performance Profiler to explore their application code and the SQL queries and execution plans behind it.
Monitor Database Growth and Usage
Create a repository of all your database devices and stay informed about changes in their size and usage.
What Have You Learned Lately?
Have you learned anything new lately? Steve Jones asks the question after an interesting T-SQL Tuesday.
Bitwise Operations in T-SQL
How can you get a list of columns that have changed within a trigger in T-SQL? How can you see what bits are set within a varbinary or integer? How would you pass a bitmap parameter to a system stored procedure? Phil Factor has answers.
Blogs
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
Forums
Unable to restrict permission
I have 13 restricted views in my EDW DB. 6 of them are created...
Install SQL Scripts via GUI Wizard
Hallo all! My problem is this: I have quite a bunch of TSQL scripts...
Would You Retire Rather Than ...
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Question of the Day
Converting Money
Does this run successfully on a SQL Server 2022, US English default installation?
DECLARE @YenAmount MONEY; SET @YenAmount = ¥1500; SELECT @YenAmount AS RawValue;See possible answers