SQLAuthority News – PASS 2009 Sessions on Query Optimization and Performance Tuning

PASS Summit 2009 is now only 10 days away and I am very excited for the same. I can not wait to attend the summit as this is the most awaited conference of SQL Server in world. Everybody will be there and there will be something for everybody. My core…
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SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Auditing in SQL Server 2008

Auditing in SQL Server 2008 SQL Server Technical Article Writer: Il-Sung Lee, Art Rask Technical Reviewer: Jack Richins, Rick Byham, Sameer Tejani, Al Comeau, JC Cannon Published: February 2009 With SQL Server Audit, SQL Server 2008 introduces an important new feature that provides a true auditing solution for enterprise customers.…
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SQL SERVER – Comic Slow Query – SQL Joke

Community TechDays at Ahmedabad was a great successful event. In fact, this can be considered the biggest event held in Ahmedabad thus far along with the community. I have posted a detailed report of the same at Community TechDays in Ahmedabad – A Successful Event. After the event, I received many emails requesting the comic slow query I had shown in my presentation.

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SQLAuthority News – Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP

Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP SQL Server Technical Article Writer: Brian Swan Published: August 2008 The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is a Microsoft-supported extension of PHP 5 that provides data access to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The extension provides a procedural interface for accessing…
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SQLAuthority News – Community TechDays in Ahmedabad – A Successful Event – Oct 3, 2009

Community TechDays at Ahmedabad was a great successful event. In fact, this can be considered the biggest event held in Ahmedabad thus far along with community. This event was held by Microsoft and PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server). The goal of this event was to dive deep into the world of Microsoft technologies and get trained on the latest from Microsoft. Well, we could successfully achieve the same and build real connections with Microsoft experts and community members.

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SQLAuthority News – Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server Technical Article Writers: Sung Hsueh Technical Reviewers: Raul Garcia, Sameer Tejani, Chas Jeffries, Douglas MacIver, Byron Hynes, Ruslan Ovechkin, Laurentiu Cristofor, Rick Byham, Sethu Kalavakur Published: February 2008 TDE does not replace cell-level encryption, EFS, or BitLocker. This white paper…
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