Salaries in 2013
The release of an extensive salary report for Information Technology shows some good trends in it for 2013.
SQL Saturday #203 - Boston
Join us at SQL Saturday Boston on April 6th. SQL Saturday is a free training event for SQL Server Professionals and those wanting to learn more about SQL Server.
Blocking SQL Server db_datareader, db_datawriter, and db_owner Permissions
n a database I currently support, the application makes use of db_datareader and db_datawriter to give permissions to the tables. In a different database, it's even worse as the application uses db_owner. We're adding new tables to both databases and we don't want the application to have access to these tables. How can I deal with the use of these three roles?
Google Glass Your Database
A new idea from a small startup may revolutionize the way that you search for data.
NoSQL: Are you ready to compromise with security
Before adopting NoSQL for a commercial application that needs consistency and durability, you need to be satisfied that the product actually provides all those niceties that the user of relational database systems take for granted.
Throttle a Query in Mid-Execution
Resource Governor provides a great mechanism for throttling resources, but it doesn't always allow granular control. Read about this trace flag that allows you to dynamically alter the resource usage of a query.
Mo-SQL
If you’re involved in the database world it’s hard to have missed the rise of the “no-sql” database products, designed to – depending on your view or the product I suppose – make databases simpler, break out of the transaction database paradigm, scale out across hundreds of machines, make it easy to change the db design (or not require one). I think some of the problems no-sql tries to solve are real, others reflect a lack of awareness/training/tools on how and why relational databases could not just solve the problem, but solve it better.
TSQL Pivot Rotations using only REPLACE
Pivoting SQL Server tables is always awkward, even with the PIVOT and UNPIVOT operators. If you want to get the job done without GROUP BY or PIVOT, here is a way to do it using only REPLACE.
SQL Saturday #197 - Omaha
Join us on April 6th in Omaha for SQL Saturday #197. SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server.
The Command Shell
This Friday Steve Jones talks about xp_cmdshell and the security regarding its use. Do you have any holes that might exist if administrators are allowed to use this tool on their instances?
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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