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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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 – 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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SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Index on Index View Used in Similar Query

Recently, I was working on an optimization project for one of the large organizations. While working on one of the queries, we came across a very interesting observation. We found that there was a query on the base table and when the query was run, it used the index, which…
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SQL SERVER – Plan Caching and Schema Change – An Interesting Observation

Last week, I had published details regarding SQL SERVER – Plan Caching in SQL Server 2008 by Greg Low on this blog. Similar to any other white paper, I have read this paper very carefully and enjoyed reading it. One particular topic in the white paper that caught my attention…
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