A New Logo
For SQL Server, it's coming soon. Surprisingly, when I was up in Redmond, quite a few people were asking about...
2008-06-04
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Blog Posts
Data Loss Mailing List and Database
The folks at attrition.org have been stalwarts in providing information to the security community for ages, it seems. I first...
2008-06-04
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Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting
Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected...
2008-06-04
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Security by Obscurity?
Andy Warren points to a TechNet article about Security by Obscurity and wanted me to post some notes. Let's start...
2008-06-04
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Managing Money
First, the usual disclaimer: I'm not a financial professional, so take all of the following with a grain of salt...
2008-06-03
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Replication Error "field size too large"
Yesterday, I was fighting with an error I have never seen in the replication and not much info can be obtained via...
2008-06-03
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World Wild Telescope & Misc Microsoft Stuff
Just took a look at the World Wild Telescope and it looks interesting, perhaps just as importantly looks cool! Don't...
2008-06-03
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DIY
Last month the LCD screen on our treadmill went out. We bought it last Christmas (06) as a present for...
2008-06-02
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Reminder - SQLSaturday #4 in Orlando June 7-8, 2008
Last call! We've got a 2 day event running this time. Saturday is the more traditional (it's only #4 after...
2008-06-02
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Security by Obscurity?
If you're not familiar with the term it means to make something safe/secure by using a trick to hide the...
2008-06-01
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Blogs
Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments
By Steve Jones
One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows...
How I Migrated to Azure PostgreSQL Flex from Single Server
I did a couple of posts previously on dumping/restoring Azure PostgreSQL databases and also...
Have a Plan for Your Personal Downtime
By Brian Kelley
Most of us know that spending a lot of time on social media and...
Forums
WHERE condition using ='value' returns different results that using IN('value')
Have an interesting scenario - user found a discrepancy with rows returned when running...
Complex Query (Multiple Tables & Joins) - Need to Restrict to Max Date
I am using the query listed below. USE GAGETRAK_26237 SELECT G.Gage_ID 'ID', G.Model_No 'Model',...
Unknown Token Received From SQL Server
I have an issue when a stored procedure is executed from the SQL Server...