Tomorrow – Webcast on SQL Server Administration
I will be giving another Microsoft SQL Server-based webcast, this time on the administration of Microsoft SQL Server. The webcast is scheduled for March 26, 2024 at 1 PM...
2024-03-25
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I will be giving another Microsoft SQL Server-based webcast, this time on the administration of Microsoft SQL Server. The webcast is scheduled for March 26, 2024 at 1 PM...
2024-03-25
10 reads
I will be giving another Microsoft SQL Server-based webcast, this time on the administration of Microsoft SQL Server. The webcast is scheduled for March 26, 2024 at 1 PM...
2024-03-15 (first published: 2024-03-08)
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I try to keep an eye on the Humble Bundle bundles for books. The bundles serve two great purposes: I was able to grab the Cybersecurity bundle, but by...
2024-02-26
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Last week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) put out an emergency directive which ordered federal agencies to pull Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure installations from...
2024-02-23 (first published: 2024-02-05)
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I first saw this at Schneier on Security. David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers, has passed away at 93. The Codebreakers was considered the best book on the history...
2024-02-05
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The first issue of 2024 for the ISACA Journal has been published and the articles are available both in written and on-line format. I have a regular column on...
2024-02-02
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I’ve known Eugene Meidinger (SQLGene) for a number of years and we share a lot of interests outside of technology. We’re both avid boardgame and card game players, though...
2024-01-31
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If you aren’t familiar with the ATT&CK framework and knowledge base, it’s a tool to help classify and understand cyberattacks. Recently (Oct 2023), ATT&CKcon 4.0 was held and MITRE...
2024-01-29
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Understanding query plans is key to successful query tuning in Microsoft SQL Server. Randolph West of the Microsoft docs team posted on Thursday that the logical and physical showplan...
2024-01-26
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So what did I learn? I think a better question is, "What did I re-learn?"
2024-01-26 (first published: 2024-01-09)
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By James Serra
(Shameless plug: The price of my book “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern...
By Steve Jones
I was working with a customer and discussing how to do error handling. This...
By DataOnWheels
The 14th annual Ability Summit is a global event that I attended a few...
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I have a small test sandbox database on an instance with default master, model, msdb, and tempdb settings. The database has these files:I now run this command:
DBCC CLONEDATABASE(sandbox, sandbox_clone); GOWhen I examine the database file properties, what do they show? See possible answers