Tag Archives: Jeff Jones

Transact-SQL does Windows presented by Jeff Jones – SQL Saturday April 28 – Chandler, AZ.

        Interface Technical Training Instructor Jeff Jones will present “Transact-SQL does Windows” at SQL Saturday April 28. Jeff’s session is at 9:45 a.m. The free training event will be held at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, 2626 E. Pecos … Continue reading

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Video: Itzik Ben-Gan on the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Denali

Interface Technical Training hosted a very special Advanced T-SQL course with SQL MVP Itzik Ben-Gan on October 17-21, 2011. We sat down with Mr. Ben-Gan to get his thoughts on various topics related to Transact SQL. In this video, Itzik … Continue reading

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Video – Itzik Ben-Gan on T-SQL Query Optimization at Interface Technical Training

Interface Technical Training hosted a very special Advanced T-SQL course with SQL MVP Itzik Ben-Gan on October 17-21, 2011. We sat down with Mr. Ben-Gan to get his insights on various topics related to Transact SQL. In this video, Itzik … Continue reading

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Advanced T-SQL Class at Interface with MVP Itzik Ben-Gan, and you can attend online with Remote Live™

I’ve had a lot of requests for an Advanced T-SQL class over the years. I’m proud to announce that Interface is now offering a 5-day Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming & Tuning class from world-renowned instructor and MVP Itzik Ben-Gan on … Continue reading

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Interface Tech Immersion 2011

              Our DEEP DIVE Tech Immersion 2011 was a great success! A highlight was the keynote by Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover, the father of PowerShell. Snover cleared up some of the confusion about … Continue reading

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Extracting SSIS Package information using T-SQL

SQL Server Integration Services can store it packages in either the file system or the MSDB system database.  One of the advantages of storing a package in MSDB is that you can use T-SQL to read the package definition and … Continue reading

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Downloading all Adventureworks databases by Jeff Jones – Interface Technical Training

You can get to all Adventureworks databases by going to the following link on Codeplex.com.  This includes, Adventureworks, AdventureworksDW, Adventureworks2008, AdventureworksDW2008 and AdventureworksLT2008. Make sure you download the correct release of the samples based on the release of SQL Server … Continue reading

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Links to SQL Server User Group Community in Phoenix, AZ – by Jeff Jones

Here are a couple of links to the Arizona SQL Server User Group community.  The first is the Arizona SQL Server User Group.  It usually meets each month except during the summer.  The second is a link to SQL Saturday.  … Continue reading

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SQL Server 2008 Policy Management Links by Jeff Jones – Interface Technical Training

Here are few links to blogs and open source projects related to Policy Management with SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server Policy Management Team blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlpbm Bart Duncan’s blog entry on Complex Server “Health” Policies – http://shrinkster.com/1bqq Codeplex project … Continue reading

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Extracting SSIS Package information using T-SQL

SQL Server Integration Services can store it packages in either the file system or the MSDB system database.  One of the advantages of storing a package in MSDB is that you can use T-SQL to read the package definition and … Continue reading

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Reporting Services Interesting Links

Below are links to projects in Codeplex.com where you can download the Adventureworks Sample databases and sample codes for reporting services.  I have included a link to download a report to link SQL Agent job names created by Reporting Services … Continue reading

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FN_Split() Table Valued Function by SQL Instructor Jeff Jones

Fn_Split() The link above is to a file with a table-valued function called fn_split(). This function allows you to pass a string of values to an IN clause of a SQL query. It breaks them down into a set of rows … Continue reading

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Who has access? – SQL Server

Occasionally you would like to find out all the tables, views and stored procedures a user can access and what permissions they have.  With a combination of the new EXECUTE AS command and the new HAS_PERMS_BY_NAME function you can figure this … Continue reading

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Integration Services Security in SQL Server by Jeff Jones

Defining security for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a bit complex. I want to focus on the security required by a developer to create and manage their own packages and people that are not SysAdmins but need to manage … Continue reading

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Dynamic PIVOT by SQL Server Instructor Jeff Jones

One aspect of using the PIVOT is to include a list of columns that will be used as the crosstab of the query.  For example, if you wish to display the total quantity ordered by Productid by Year you need … Continue reading

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Renaming SQL Server

The following is a T-SQL script you can use to rename your SQL Server after you have changed the computer name. This script will work if you are connected to the default instance or a named instance. After running the … Continue reading

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Moving Logins Across Multiple SQL Servers

Moving logins from SQL Server to SQL Server has to be done a lot.  There are a number of situations that require moving logins like: log shipping, moving a database from one server to another, or database mirroring.  In SQL … Continue reading

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Accessing Master..Sysperfinfo Table in SQL Server

The SQL Server 2000 statistics are available in a pseudo-table in Master called sysperfinfo. This table returns the statistics in a table format. There are some statistics that represent ratios (i.e., Buffer Cache Hit Ratio). These statitics must combine two … Continue reading

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Moving DTS packages to a SQL Server 2005 Server by Jeff Jones

I have a bunch of DTS packages sitting in the MSDB database on my SQL Server 2000 system. I want to move the packages to my SQL Server 2005 server to continue executing them while I begin the migration. It … Continue reading

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SQL Server 2005 Displaying Object Owners

I got a question in class to as to how to figure out the owner of a stored procedure or a view. After looking at the sys.all_objects system view, saw that the principal_id column had a NULL in each row. … Continue reading

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