This month’s T-SQL Tuesday post is about LOB data http://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/archive/2010/05/03/t-sql-tuesday-006-what-about-blob.aspx.   For this one I decided to post a sample Tiger/Line SQL database I use all the time in live demos. For those who aren't familiar with it, Tiger/Line data is a dataset published by the U.S. ...

Invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #006:  ''What About BLOB?''   It's getting warm outside just in time for the May T-SQL Tuesday blog party.  I’ll be your host this month--and the secret word for this T-SQL Tuesday is ''Large Object (LOB) Data''.       What’s T-SQL Tuesday?   About 6 months ago Adam ...

This post is my entry for Adam Machanic's T-SQL Tuesday #004, hosted this time by Mike Walsh. I was at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week discussing database encryption options in SQL Server 2008 and one question seemed to keep coming up. The question concerns FILESTREAM and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), but first a little ...

In response to Adam's new series of T-SQL Tuesday, I wanted to write that there are faster ways to get the data in a set-based manner without resorting to SQLCLR.http://sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2009/12/08/t-sql-tuesday-001-exploring-fuzzy-interval-islands-using-sqlclr.aspxMany companies today still think of SQLCLR's as security ...