Blog » Entries from 11/2009
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SQL Saturday #34/New England Data Camp v2.0
It’s official sports fans. Well, it’s been official since last week since Adam Machanic set up the web site. The New England SQL Server Users Group and the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group are again jointly hosting a full day of SQL Server goodness on January ...
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How do -you- install SQL Server? (Part 3)
Welcome to this series on a thought process around SQL Server Installation. In Part 1, we started talking about some basic steps and a thought process for a repeatable success story with your SQL Server installations. Part 2 discussed security, playing around before doing a first install and smoke testing ...
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SQL Server XQuery For Idiots
I’m still struggling with learning XQuery. My latest little revelation was small, but vital.
The difference between:
@inXML.nodes('/rss/channel/item')and
@inXML.nodes('/rss[1]/channel[1]/item')Is the difference between a 10 minute query and a 4 second query. Kind of shocking really. My understanding ...
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TechNet WebCast: SQL Server Locking & Blocking
Next Monday, I’m presenting a TechNet WebCast for Microsoft Thrive Live! The subject: SQL Server Locking & Blocking Made Simple. Here are the details:Event Overview
A good working knowledge of how Microsoft SQL Server makes use of locking and transaction isolation levels can help you greatly improve an application ...
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OPENXML can be a beast sometimes.
Our application includes some search functionality which is pretty complex to deal with. In a nutshell the user can select multiple values from a couple of lists on the website and use those listed to filter down the rows which are being searched. These lists are passed into the SQL ...
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Have You Seen This Man?
EDMPASS WANTS BUCK WOODY!!! When talking to Summit attendees the one name that comes up constantly or the one question that comes up is… “Did you get a chance to see Buck Woody present?” I did… and it was my first time. It was the end of the day I believe on the Thursday… I would tell you [...] -
Ownership chaining or how to extend permissions without giving away the server
The nightly process in our production system collects data from our real time systems (JD Edwards) and then processes that data. Many of these process manipulate the data and supply a modified data set for use by the dozens of client processes and applications. All of the client applications have ...
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Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Enhancements
What server upgrade would be complete without some Active Directory enhancements? This release is no exception.
One of the best enhancements (in my opionion) is that Active Directory now has a recycle bin. It's something that needs to be enabled and has its own requirements before you can do ...
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The Sequels for SQL Server: The Week of November 27, 2009
Just as an FYI, I’ve added one new slide deck and webcast to http://KevinEKline.com/Slides/, as well as quite a few upcoming user group events where I’m speaking in http://KevinEKline/Upcoming-Events/.
I’m starting a new series called Sequels for SQL Server. In this series ...
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