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Brian Knight

Brian Knight is a senior SQL Server DBA at Alltel and runs http://www.swynk.com/friends/knight. He is an MCSE and is the coauthor of Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (WROX Press).
Email: bknight@swynk.com

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Troubleshooting a Failed Installation

By Brian Knight, 10/01/2003

Learn tips for figuring out a failure in SQL Server installation on a Windows Server 2003 cluster.

Network Setup Options

By Brian Knight, 10/01/2003

Learn about the three network setup options you can choose from when setting up clustering for SQL Server.

Clustering SQL Server

By Brian Knight, 09/18/2003

Many DBAs and systems administrators are intimidated by the idea of SQL Server clustering. But by breaking the process into these six manageable steps, you can set up a clustered ...

DTS Grows Up

By Brian Knight, 03/21/2001

SQL Server 2000's Data Transformation Services is full of new and improved tasks that make transforming your data faster and easier than ever.

Configuring SQL Server 2000 Options

By Brian Knight, 02/22/2001

By eliminating some options and revamping others, Microsoft helps you to better configure SQL Server.

Database Scanner 4.0.1

By Brian Knight, 12/20/2000

Lock down your SQL Server 7.0 and 6.x systems with Internet Security Systems' security-scanning tool.

SQLAudit 1.7

By Brian Knight, 10/19/2000

Red Matrix Technologies' auditing tool provides an easy-to-use trigger-based system for tracking inserts, updates, and deletes to your data.

SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 2

By Brian Knight, 07/01/2000

SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes more than 170 known fixes to SQL Server 7.0 and 20 fixes to OLAP Services. Here's a guide to installing SP2.

Linked Servers

By Brian Knight, 06/16/2000

Linked servers, the core technology in SQL Server 2000 distributed partitioned views, let you use distributed queries to query a SQL Server or non-SQL Server database as if it ...

Reader to Reader: Undocumented Stored Procedures

By Brian Knight, 11/01/1999

Extended stored procedures are a useful way to display information about files or your system. Any noninteractive program you can write in C or C++, you can write as an extended ...

Exercise

By Brian Knight, 11/01/1999

Creating a SQL Server Agent job

Exercise

By Brian Knight, 10/29/1999

Auditing a table

Reader to Reader: Undocumented Power

By Brian Knight, 10/23/1999

In SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0, Microsoft ships a set of stored procedures that let you use a one-line cursor query for querying the master database for all tables or databases and ...