Archive for the ‘SQL Server’ Category

Unlike my last post on the issue, instead of simply pointing to another blog for instructions on how to query Active Directory from SQL Server, I’ll provide some useful tips on getting things all working.

Tutorial on how to test and verify account permissions with impersonation in SQL Server.

T-SQL functions for converting between Gregorian and Julian dates.

I stumbled upon a few little gems that SQL Server 2008 includes that I hadn’t yet heard about. Although, very few are deploying SQL 2008 to production currently, these enhancements might make life programming in 2008 much easier.

T-SQL query to report the row count of all tables in a database without the heavy I/O cost of a table scan.


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