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SQLAuthority News – Blog Makeover – New Banner – New Color

Just a month back I had previously changed my personal homepage and had requested for feedback from my readers here SQLAuthority News – Authors Website Redesigned – https://www.pinaldave.com/ – Feedback Requested. To my astonishment, I received a huge number of emails. But I received only one comment. This time, I would like to request my readers to leave your comments on my blog instead of emailing it to me. This will allow everyone to know about others feedbacks and the actions I take towards incorporating the feedbacks on my blog and a new banner.

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SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : SQLDUMPER library failed initialization. Your installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with. Please uninstall then re-run setup to correct to correct this problem. in a modal dialog with the title SQL Writer

I often receive emails from reader requesting solution to following error: “SQLDUMPER library failed initialization. Your installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with. Please uninstall then re-run setup to correct to correct this problem.” in a modal dialog with the title “SQL Writer” While searching online there are…
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SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers

I was recently working on security auditing for one of my clients. In this project, there was a requirement that all successful logins in the servers should be recorded. The solution for this requirement is a breeze! Just create logon triggers. I created logon trigger on server to catch all successful windows authentication as well SQL authenticated solutions. When I was done with this project, I made an interesting observation of executing a logon trigger multiple times. It was absolutely unexpected for me! As I was logging only once, naturally, I was expecting the entry only once. However, it did it multiple times on different threads – indeed an eccentric phenomenon at first sight!

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SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (May 2009)

SQL Server 2008, the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008. Books Online includes the following types of information: Setup and upgrade instructions. Information about new features and backward compatibility. Conceptual descriptions of the technologies and…
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SQL SERVER – Introduction to Business Intelligence – Important Terms and Definitions

What is Business Intelligence Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of application programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data from various data sources, thus providing enterprise users with reliable and timely information and analysis for improved decision making. To put it simply, BI is…
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SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Energy Event with Rushabh Mehta – May 20, 2009

The much-awaited SQL Server Energy Event was successfully held on May 20, 2009 in Ahmedabad. It was jointly organized by Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group (President Pinal Dave – SQL MVP) and Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group (President Jacob Sebastian – SQL MVP). This vibrant event was one of the…
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SQLAuthority News – Download – SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit

Note : Download SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit by Microsoft

SQL Server 2008 offers an impressive array of capabilities for developers that build upon key innovations introduced in SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server 2008. The training kit is brought to you by Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism.

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SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: )

Regular readers of my blog are aware of the fact that I have written about this subject umpteen times earlier, and every time I have spoken about a new issue related to it. Few days ago, I had redone my local home network. I have LAN setup with wireless router…
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