SQL Server Security Benchmarks
If you’re not familiar with the Center for Internet Security, here’s the organization’s mission statement:
The Mission of the Center for...
2014-10-20
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
#TSQL2sday #59 – My Heroes
Here is my list of heroes for #TSQL2sday. None of them are directly tied to technology, much less SQL Server....
2014-10-14
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Slides and Code for SSIG Talk
Thank you for those who made it out to the SQL Server Innovators Guild last night in Greenville, SC. I...
2014-10-08
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Carolina Technology Conference: Presentation Materials
For those able to attend my session at this year’s Carolina Technology Conference, thank you! As promised, here are the...
2014-10-06
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The Fallacy of Internal Access Only
In the wake of Shell Shock, I’ve seen some vendor advisories indicate that while their product is vulnerable, it’s only...
2014-10-07 (first published: 2014-09-30)
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Four Things PASS gets Right
PASS has taken a lot of heat recently. A few folks have pointed out that you only seem to hear...
2014-09-29 (first published: 2014-09-24)
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[Off-Topic] Beating Childhood Cancer
Note: I feel this post is important enough to post across all my blogs.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month here...
2014-09-09
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Audit Webinar Tomorrow (4 September 2014)
I will be given a webinar on how to audit SQL Server through MSSQLTips.com.
Webinar Registration Link
The abstract:
Don’t become a statistic....
2014-09-03
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4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier as a DBA
I was tagged by Mike Walsh (blog | twitter) in his post 4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier As a...
2014-09-05 (first published: 2014-08-28)
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Continuous Integration/Delivery without Testing!
Anything we can do to automate our builds and deployment should be considered. After all, the point isn’t just to...
2014-08-28 (first published: 2014-08-25)
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Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?
Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...
Blob Storage automated downloads
Dipping my toes into the waters of Azure and of course before I get...
Announcing SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers