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A warning to shops that still, despite numerous warnings, have a blank SQL Server system administrator (sa) password: Microsoft says that a worm code-named Voyager Alpha Force, which takes advantage of blank sa passwords, is making its way around...
When the Microsoft Certified DBA (MCDBA) program began a few years ago, I cut the program some slack. It provided a reasonable method of evaluating basic SQL Server competence and gave IT professionals a way to show that they knew at least a...
Despite what some advertisements lead you to believe, when a disaster strikes, you need more than just a large insurance policy to get things back to normal. And in some cases, you simply can't bring a business back to where it was before the...
This market-basket analysis problem isn't for the faint of heart. Use the FoodMart 2000 Sales cube to determine which 10 non-beer products customers purchased most frequently in the same transaction with beer products. For this problem, I define a...
IBM and Oracle have long touted their database systems' high availability. And CEOs and CIOs widely view these databases as absolutely reliable and ready for the enterprise. Unfortunately, SQL Server still seeks that assumption of absolute...