Did you know that SQL Server 2005 supports renaming logins? This can be done via ALTER LOGIN statement. I posted a sample about renaming sa login and disabling it before. But it is probably not obvious if you can do it for all logins. Ex: ALTER LOGIN...

An MVP recently sent us an email asking how to use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views to access temp tables. This MVP thought the session ID (spid) was needed to construct the suffix. Here was our response: ========================= Hi, The algorithm...

Here is an opportunity to discuss about the top 5 features that you would like to see in the next version of SQL Server. It would be nice if you can include a sentence for each feature explaining why it is required. Please use features of SQL Server 2005...

The question about what features are supported by SQL Server 2005 running on Windows Server 2003 comes up quite often. So below are some of the features that are depends on the OS and brief description about them. 1. Password policy/expiration check...

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