Tim Cullen

 

Tim has been working in the IT industry since 2003. After spending a few years as an "IT Generalist", his career focus turned to SQL Server and application development. He currently works as an IT Specialist for a Federal agency in Maryland, where he focuses on SQL Server administration and providing guidance to teams on SQL Server performance issues. When not working, he enjoys playing golf, playing bass guitar, and exercising.

2013 Awards
  

• Introduction to the Amazon Relational Database Service (last update: 4/8/2013)
  

• Data Access Object (DAO) and Visual Basic.NET to create an Access database interrogation tool (last update: 10/8/2010)
  

• Change SQL Server Database Mirroring Endpoint Encryption Algorithm (last update: 6/15/2020)
  

• Add and Subtract Dates using DATEADD in SQL Server (last update: 3/31/2018)
  
• Daylight Savings Time Functions in SQL Server (last update: 11/13/2007)
  
• Determine SQL Server Date and Time Parts with DATEPART and DATENAME Functions (last update: 5/24/2019)
  
• SQL Server DateDiff Example (last update: 10/10/2011)
  
• TSQL Function to Determine Holidays in SQL Server (last update: 7/10/2008)
  

• Managing SQL Server Master Keys for Encryption (last update: 8/20/2007)
  
• Natively Encrypting Social Security Numbers in SQL Server 2005 (last update: 11/30/2007)
  
• SQL Server Encryption Certificates Overview (last update: 8/29/2007)
  
• SQL Server Encryption Key Management between Dev, Test and Prod (last update: 2/17/2009)
  

• Using SOUNDEX and DIFFERENCE to Standardize Data in SQL Server (last update: 11/16/2010)
  

• Importing DBF files into SQL Server (last update: 8/3/2011)
  

• SQL Server 2008 Installation Process (Part 1 of 3) (last update: 2/2/2009)
  
• SQL Server 2008 Installation Process (Part 2 of 3) (last update: 4/13/2009)
  
• SQL Server 2008 Installation Process (Part 3 of 3) (last update: 5/1/2009)
  

• Getting the SSIS package store to work with a SQL Server named instance (last update: 4/9/2009)
  

• Configure web application permissions for SQL Server Master Data Services (last update: 7/23/2010)
  
• Introduction to Master Data Services in SQL Server 2008 (last update: 6/4/2010)
  
• SQL Server Master Data Services Installation and Database Creation (last update: 6/25/2010)
  

• Import Excel data with SQL Server Integration Services (last update: 5/11/2010)
  

• Getting IO and time statistics for SQL Server queries (last update: 5/31/2007)
  

• Dataset and tablix filtering in SQL Server Reporting Services (last update: 1/27/2012)
  

• Custom control and setup of SSRS report parameters from a web page (last update: 5/14/2009)
  

• Extended Protection available in SQL Server 2008 R2 (last update: 9/1/2010)
  

• Data storage and retrieval for geospatial data in SQL Server 2008 (last update: 1/22/2010)
  
• Geography Markup Language for Geospatial Data in SQL Server (last update: 12/20/2010)
  
• SQL Server 2008 Geography and Geometry Data Types (last update: 9/29/2009)
  
• SQL Server 2008 Spatial Index Performance (last update: 4/2/2010)
  
• SQL Server Geography Data Type (last update: 3/18/2010)
  

• Configure MaxTokenSize for SQL Server Authentication (last update: 8/8/2008)
  
• SQL Server Name Resolution Troubleshooting (last update: 1/28/2008)
  
• Windows Integrated Authentication Failures to SQL Server (last update: 8/21/2008)
  

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight Installation (last update: 8/26/2011)
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight Overview (last update: 8/19/2011)
  

• SQL Server XML Bulk Loading Example (last update: 3/5/2010)