Each job in a SQL Server instance has an owner, and you may run into a situation in which that owner needs to be changed. If there are a lo...

Each database in a SQL Server instance has an owner, and you may run into a situation in which that owner needs to be changed. One example ...

We’ve been using AD authentication with our RHEL and CENTOS 4 and 5 systems for some time, now, so I was anxious to see what kinds of change...

SSIS provides for multiple paths between tasks.  Very helpful stuff; here we’ll look at a simple solution to a common scenario. Below is a ...

There’s no out-of-the-box SQL Compact data source in SSIS, which presents a problem when you’re needing to copy data from a SQLCE data file....

With PeopleTools 8.5, Oracle moved the app servers into 64-bit territory. That was welcome news. Unfortunately, the whole stack isn't...

Microsoft offers a very helpful document here and here detailing how to use subinacl to give control over a service to a user. Unfortunate...

We recently had a problem, after re-doing some samba configurations on RHEL 5, in which a user would log in (successfully), but then be pres...

We recently upgraded our domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 R2, and our RHEL 5 authentication through our Windows domain immediately ...

We’ve looked at using transactions in an SSIS package to ensure that, for instance, the read data step in your package doesn’t fail after...