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Bad habits to kick : ignoring the principle of least privilege
In my last post in this series , I talked about "blind SQL Server installs" and some of the potential consequences of making uninformed choices during setup (or of just accepting all of the defaults)....
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Welcome to the jungle, CLR!
I've always been very reluctant to use the CLR. On a completely unrelated tangent recently, I begrudgingly threw CLR into the ring of a string splitting performance test (blog post forthcoming)....
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Splitting a list of integers : another roundup
Last August, I wrote a lengthy post about how I handle splitting up a list of integers that are passed into a procedure as a comma-separated list. I am still using this method today. But since almost a...
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Connect Digest : 2011-09-22
Where is SYSDATE()? I've talked about this one before, but due to a recent conversation about building a datetime value from separate date/time columns or variables, it may be worth bringing up again....
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'CLR Enabled' is not required to use CLR built-ins
Books Online articles referencing built-in CLR functions (such as FORMAT() ) have a remark similar to the following: "FORMAT relies on the presence of .the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime...
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