Earlier this month, I presented an Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s.  A video of the session is available at the Pragmatic Works website.  As a part of that session, I received a couple dozen questions about security that we didn’t… Read more

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

Ever jump on a machine to connect to a SQL Server and find out… whoops! No tools.  For some reason, the client machine doesn’t have SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) installed.  Now I’m not talking about not having the SSMS installed on the server, but on the local workstation that… Read more

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

As I mentioned in the introductory post, in the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s, I received a large number of questions that there wasn’t time to answer.  Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I’ve opted… Read more

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

I’m a little late getting the information from my Fargo SQL Saturday session posted, titled ”Discovering the Plan Cache“.  But it’s better a little late that never.

Even though it was the end of the day, the session had great turnout and lots of good questions.  Reviewing my… Read more

Last Thursday, I delivered a presentation for Pragmatic Works Training on the T’s. The session for last week was Introduction to SQL Server Security, a part of last month’s series of introductory presentations.

The abstract for the sessions is:

One of the most often overlooked feature sets of…

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It’s the start of the month of May, or at least the first Monday in May.  Hopefully you aren’t nursing too much pain from a weekend that included two fairly dissimilar holidays.  First, there was Star Wars Day on Saturday.  Followed by Cinco de Mayo on Sunday.  There should have… Read more

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

It seems that with the Disney purchase of Star Wars this past year that May the Fourth is coming on strong this year.  I wasn’t planning to write up anything, since it kind of felt like this year the holiday was getting plenty of exposure, but then I want to… Read more

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

There are countless sources for information on SQL Server available today.  There are books, webcasts, conferences, and blogs.  With all of these sources, it is easy to forget that there are white papers available from Microsoft.  It is important that  we make an effort to read the white papers that… Read more

We are down to the last few days before first SQL Saturday in Fargo.  It’s been some work pulling it all together, but with the help of Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt), Sarah Strate (Blog | @DanceM0m), and Jes Borland (Blog | @grrl_geek),… Read more

In last week’s post, I talked about the steps required to backup a Azure SQL Database.  That post leaves us asking what’s the use of having a backup of a database, if you aren’t going to restore it somewhere.  And more importantly, if you can’t restore a database, or… Read more

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting.  These tweets include “Reading” in the message and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be… Read more

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

When I first started working with Azure SQL Databases, I wasn’t sure what it would take to backup a database.  In fact, I wasn’t even sure if this concept was appropriate when it came to databases hosted in “the cloud”.  What I found was that the concept of backing up… Read more