As I mentioned in the introductory post, in the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: Differences between “Grant” and “With Grant?”
As I mentioned in the introductory post, in the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's, I received a large number of questions that there wasn't time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I've opted to put together a post per topic. Hopefully, this will … Continue reading Security Questions: Grant Permissions to All Stored Procedures
Earlier this month, I presented an Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work's Training on the T's. A video of the session is available at the Pragmatic Works website. As a part of that session, I received a couple dozen questions about security that we didn't have a chance to go over during … Continue reading SQL Server Security Webcast Questions – Series Introduction
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the last post, I discussed using functions within XQuery with the Substring() function as part of the XQuery for the Non-Expert blog series. To continue on that theme, this post is going to take a look into … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In a previous post, I discussed the exist() method as part of the XQuery for the Non-Expert blog series. When working with the exist() method you may not always want to hardcode in the attribute values that you … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – @Variable Use
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the value() method post of my XQuery for the Non-Expert series I discussed how to take element and attributes and return them as column values. Those methods works all fine and dandy for most data but when … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Binary Values
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. Within the value() and query() methods it is sometimes desirable to return a portion of a string. Similar to T-SQL, there is a substring function in XQuery that provides this functionality. In this XQuery for the Non-Expert post … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function
Learning XQuery can be a pain. There are a lot of different uses for XML and different languages implement it in many different fashions. To help clear the air a bit, I wrote a number of posts on XQuery; which this post is a part of. Now that I’ve posted my initial posts on what … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Resources
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the previous post, I discussed the value() method as part of my XQuery for the Non-Expert series. This next post will deal with a topic similar to the exist() method – the determination of whether a element … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Exist
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the last post, I discussed the query() method in my XQuery for the Non-Expert series. With this next post, we’ll be working on taking data out of the XML fragments and placing them into columns with the … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Value
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