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We also lost power, which was a rude awakening. We had full laptop batteries, but no connectivity. I was taking kids to school and by the time I…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 25 April 2007
Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 23 April 2007
Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 16 April 2007
Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 15 April 2007
Post SP2 Fixes
They do a good job explaining it and I'm actually releasing a link Monday to it so people can understand what's going on and what they should install to be current.
The one thing…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 13 April 2007
Not 4GB
I saw this very interesting post from Hilton Locke at Microsoft on the issue. Apparently it's mostly hardware, depending on what you have, and an architectural decision that there are memory…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 13 April 2007
The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?
SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Re-release and post fixes explained
So with all the confusion, what version should you be at? Bob posts that in his summary:
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 11 April 2007
New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 11 April 2007
Thoughts from Never Eat Alone
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 10 April 2007
More information about SQL Server 2005 and SP2
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 9 April 2007
Help Johnny, Help Kids
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 9 April 2007
Microsoft CRM Security Internals
CRM is an interesting application for DBAs because it does use row-level security. It's a bit more complex than most row-level security models in that there are access checks and…
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 9 April 2007
How to pick a combination lock in 30 seconds
Network Security Blog: Pick a combination lock in 30 seconds
If it looks easy to make such a shim, it is:
Beer Can Padlock Shim
This goes right…
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 7 April 2007
SQL Server Samples on CodePlex
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 6 April 2007
Thoughts from The Cuckoo's Egg
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll has been around for a while, having been published in 1989. It details how a system administrator (a trained astronomer who had to find something else to do) tracked a malicious hacker through his system and numerous others including defense contractors and unclassified DoD…
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 6 April 2007
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 6 April 2007
QA/QC
I'm not a great tester and I'm sure I'd have missed these things as well, but there's no excuse for Microsoft, with a SQL Server team of hundreds, to not regression check everything…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 6 April 2007
Hot Fixes
I wrote about Hot Fixes being inclusive of previous hot fixes. Someone questioned this and so I went back to Simon's blog and checked his source. He's a SQL Server MVP (and a great guy, I got to meet him at the Summit last year) and he got it from…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 3 April 2007