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  • Implementing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

    In my previous article we have discussed what is TDE, how it works, its pros and cons. In this article Im going to cover how to implement transparent data encryption to your server. Its very simple to implement TDE, below are the steps that needs to be completed to enable TDE. Create a master key…

  • Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

    Introduction Securing each part and datas in a database is now an important task for DBAs to accomplish else the datas might be hacked. Keeping in mind Microsoft has started encryption features from SQL 2005 and its greatly improved its feature in SQL Server 2008. Lets recall the encryption features in previous versions of SQL…

  • Configuring SQL Server Reporting Services

    In my previous article we have covered installing reporting service. The next step in reporting service is to configure them according to your environment. There are many options are available in reporting service configuration. You need to configure all these values with respect to your environment. There are two ways to configure reporting service a.)…

  • Trigger to Check Job failures

    I was trying to find a alert which could fire immediately upon any of the job failure in the server to send an email. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any the alert related to this. So I thought of writing a DML trigger which should fire immediately when an entry is inserted in sysjobhistory table on…

  • Installing SQL Server Reporting Service

    Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services enables organizations to transform valuable enterprise data into shared information for insightful, timely decisions at a lower total cost of ownership. In this article Im going to install SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on Windows 2003 machine. Lets discuss about installation of reporting services.

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