Recommended reading from mrdenny for February 08, 2013
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. Does a Clustered Index really physically store the rows in key order? Your online security is only as good as the weakest link Less Useful Soft Skills Declarative Architectures in Infrastructure as […]
When Designing Logon Systems, Pay More Attention To Password Questions.
In recent months the Internet has started to wake up to security just a little bit more, and probably forgotten all about it as well (read this, this, this and this if you need a refresher). The big problem that I speak of is those annoying questions that we have to answer when setting up a […]
Recommended reading from mrdenny for February 01, 2013
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. 10 Years After SQL Slammer Customizing Extended Events Templates in SQL Server 2012 Ask the Unicorn: How to become a DBA? IT pros reveal benefits, drawbacks of data virtualization software The Wonderful […]
SSMS Masks Some Error Messages
So the other day I was working on a linked server problem where we wanted to run queries against a linked server to a SQL Server Analysis Services database so that a SQL Server stored procedure could hit the SSAS database directly. I was just running a sample query against a database that I knew […]