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 a SQL Server Reports Developer for an application team in Atlanta, GA. Prior to entering the IT workforce Tim worked in the healthcare industry.

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Application Development

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

Cloud Computing

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

Dates

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 with DATEPART and DATENAME Functions (last update: 10/17/2011)
SQL Server DateDiff Example (last update: 10/10/2011)
TSQL Function to Determine Holidays in SQL Server (last update: 7/10/2008)

Encryption

Managing SQL Server 2005 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 2005 Encryption Certificates Overview (last update: 8/29/2007)
SQL Server Encryption Key Management between Dev, Test and Prod (last update: 2/17/2009)

Functions - System

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

Import and Export

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

Install and Uninstall

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)

Integration Services Configuration Options

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

Master Data Services

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)

Microsoft Excel Integration

Import Excel 2007 data with SQL Server Integration Services (last update: 5/11/2010)

Performance Tuning

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

Reporting Services Filtering

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

Reporting Services Parameters

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

Security

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

Spatial Data Storage

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)

SQL Server Configurations

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)

StreamInsight

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

XML

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

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