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SQL SERVER – Clear Drop Down List of Recent Connection From SQL Server Management Studio

November 5, 2008

Best Practices, Database, DBA, SQL Scripts, Vista

Quite often it happens that SQL Server Management Studio’s Dropdown box is cluttered with many different SQL Server’s name. Sometime it contains the name of the server which does not exist or developer does not have access to it. It is very easy to clean the list and start over.…

SQL SERVER – Fix : Error: 4064 – Cannot open user default database. Login failed. Login failed for user

November 4, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts

I have received following question nearly 10 times in last week though emails. Many users have received following error while connecting to the database. This error happens when database is dropped for which is default for some of the database user. When user try to login and their default database…

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Security Whitepapers

November 3, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Download, SQL Server Security, SQL White Papers

Microsoft has published following three security related white papers. I suggest to all my readers to read them. Read the summary know what is covered in those white papers. Engine Separation of Duties for the Application Developer – Separation of duties is an important consideration for databases and database applications.…

SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : Login failed for user ‘UserName’. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection

November 2, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

Recently I have got two desktop computers at home and both of them are very powerful machine. Machine 1 : Windows Vista SP1 with SQL Server 2008 Machine 2 : Windows 2003 with SQL Server 2005 with SP2 When I was trying to connect from SQL Server 2008 to SQL…

SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure WITH ENCRYPTION and Execution Plan

November 1, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server Security

Stored Procedures are very important and most of the business logic of my applications are always coded in Stored Procedures. Sometime it is necessary to hide the business logic from end user due to security reasons or any other reason. Keyword WITH ENCRYPTION is used to encrypt the text of…

SQL SERVER – DECLARE Multiple Variables in One Statement

October 31, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Best Practices, SQL Scripts

Just a day ago, while I was enjoying mini vacation during festival of Diwali I met one of the .NET developer who is big fan of Oracle. While discussing he suggested that he wished SQL Server should have feature where multiple variable can be declared in one statement. I requested…

SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

October 30, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Download

Note: Download Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 by Microsoft The SQL Server Management Pack provides the capabilities for Operations Manager 2007 to discover SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 installations and components and to monitor them, primarily from the perspective of availability and performance. The…

SQLAuthority News – Download SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 – CTP

October 29, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Download

The CTP version of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available. You can use these packages to upgrade any of the following SQL Server 2005 editions: Enterprise Enterprise Evaluation Developer Standard Workgroup For a summary list of What’s new in SQL Server 2005 SP3 CTP, review the…

SQLAuthority News – Happy Diwali to All of You

October 28, 2008

Pinal Dave

Personal

SQLAuthority Wishes Happy Diwali to All of You. Diwali is one of the important Hindu festivals, which comprises of four consecutive days of celebrations.

SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008

October 27, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

SQL Download

Note: Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008 by Microsoft