Maintaining the Security-Worthlessness of Java is Oracle’s Priority

By Arie Jones

Nandini Ramani, leader of Oracle’s Java development, wrote an interesting blog post last week on all the security vulnerabilities that have been plaguing Java here recently

SSIS Row Comparison By Checksum

By Arie Jones

Sometimes a checksum is not all it's cracked up to be

@MaxCDN: The Proper Way to Handle a Hack

By Arie Jones

It’s not often that I give out praise for how a company handles a security breach, especially one that could contains usernames and passwords.

Windows 8, Is It Really DOA?

By Arie Jones

Is Windows 8 really DOA like a lot of people say or could it just be a little misinterpreation of the OS.

The Future of Bitcoin?

By Arie Jones

A lot of press has been made of Bitcoin in the last few years, but what exactly is the phenomenon and how could or would it affect the way that we handle transactions?

A New Direction

By Arie Jones

My blog has gone through SEVERAL iterations over the past several years, mainly depending on what mood I am in at a particular time or what technology I am using. I have basically tried them all…

Warning! Latest Windows 8 updates and SSD Acceleration!

By Arie Jones

You may run into a rather strange error when you try to run Windows Update on Windows 8 with an accelerated hard drive...

SSIS Execute SQL Task : Mapping Parameters And Result Sets

By Arie Jones

A very common scenario in an ETL process is one in which you need to call out to some configuration tables to figure out some values that it needs to use somewhere downstream in the process. Quite often you also want to pass in some parameters as well. So in this article I will be addressing both of those scenarios.

Capitalism Works! Even for Hackers?

By Arie Jones

InfoWorld is finally reporting on a rather disheartening trend that I have watched over the past year or so, which is the rise of the consumer black markets for malware.

Use Your Azure Settings!

By Azure Ninja

A lot of times you are used to creating your connection strings and important app settings in your web.config file. However, what happens when you are creating a worker process that you don’t necessarily have a config file for? What if you wanted to update a value without have to repost the code to your application?

Microsoft Announces New Pricing for Azure SQL Reporting Services

By Azure Ninja

Microsoft announced earlier this month that they were changing the way Azure SQL Reporting was being charged.

Fear Not the Mighty TRIM() Function!

By Arie Jones

Should we want Microsoft to add a TRIM function to SQL Server?

Twitter Is Nuts : Considering Two-Factor Authentication

By Arie Jones

Okay so it looks from this post that Twitter is at least considering two-factor authentication since it had a security breach in which 250,000 user accounts were compromised. During the breach Bob Lord revealed that passwords and salts were taken but they didn't think that they could be cracked but just as a “precaution” they were resetting them.

Silverlight : Hooking up a Default Button Action

By Arie Jones

We look at how to create a default button behavior that can be attached to a control in Silverlight.

BlogEngine.NET Settings Not Saving With Values Other Than Text

By Arie Jones

You may be having problems with BlogEngine.NET saving Settings properly for extensions...
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Review: Samsung 840 Series 250GB Sata III Solid State Drive

By Arie Jones

I decided that it was high time that I switched out my older 500GB mechanical hard drive with an SSD. Here is my experience so far.

#SQLSat SQL Saturday Indianapolis Sponsorship Opportunity!

By Arie Jones

On Jul 28th,2012 Indianapolis will be hosting an all day event of approximately 250+ developers and database administrators at the University of Indianapolis.

SQL Server 2012 Firestarter Series Recordings!

By Arie Jones

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Chicago SQL Connections Talk: Auditing Using SQL Audit in SQL Server 2008 R2

By Arie Jones

Thanks to everyone that attended the presentation last night! It was really great to have everyone there and engaged in the conversation. Also great to see some old comrades as well. Below you will find the link to my slides and the content from th

PTI SQL Server 2012 Firestarter Webcast Series

By Arie Jones

Well, PTI is ramping up for the release of SQL Server 2012 which is coming out the first half of this year and in order to help get the community up to speed we are putting on TWO MONTHS worth of weekly webcasts based on all of the new goodies that a
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#SQLSat87 Louisville Recap

By Arie Jones

Another SQL Saturday weekend has come and gone. This time it was SQL Saturday #87 in Louisville, KY . The event appeared to be pretty well packed

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Simple WPF: ListBox Items Stretching To Fill Width

Hyper-V Guest Drops Network Connection

By Arie Jones

I am in the process of setting up a new server with a Hyper-V network and have run into an interesting problem where the network connection keeps dropping off.

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Swan Dive Into Filtered Indexes and Statistics

By Arie Jones

Thanks to everyone that attended the session with Pragmatic Works. It was great getting a lot of good questions. As promised, here are the slides and the scripts for everything.

Simple VS2010 Tool O’ The Day

By Arie Jones

Okay so just a quick post here to give some kudos to Skybladev2 for developing this cool little add-in

#SQLSat82 Indianapolis: Post-Mortem

By Arie Jones

Well, another SQL Saturday is in the books. This time I was speaking at our own SQL Saturday #82 in Indianapolis, IN. Being our first SQL Saturday event the pressure was on to produce a top-tier event for both speakers and attendees alike. Luckily, m

#Telerik: Mastering the WPF RadWindow Dialog Boxes

By Arie Jones

RadWindow within the Telerik toolkit is an awesome resource for creating stylish windows. However, it also has the added benefit of providing you with some out-of-the-box implementations of dialog