Eitan Blumin

Eitan Blumin is a SQL Server database expert and a senior consultant at Madeira Data Solutions. He has many years of experience in all fields of SQL Server (since the year 2005), including but not limited to: Database design, management, development, tuning, replication, backup management, security management, SSIS, SSRS, encryption, disaster recovery and more.
Eitan also has 10 years of experience in ASP web development, and some experience in a wide variety of development environments such as PHP, C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Perl, Assembler, Powershell and more.

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Attacking the Weakest Link

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When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...

Webinar – Microsoft Fabric for Dummies

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On Wednesday May 15th 2024 I will give a free webinar on MSSQLTips.com about...

Migrate datetime data to datetimeoffset with AT TIME ZONE

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I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...

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Forums

Extend Event with sqlserver.login

By Ken McKelvey

My knowledge of Extended Events is limited, but I am trying to capture some...

ghost backups processed 0 pages

By Snargables

I've got something I'm not aware of performing backups of my dbs at random...

Stored Procedures - passed string than variable length

By Arthur Kirchner

Dear all, I was just wondering: Can you change the default behaviour as illustrated...

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Question of the Day

The Backup File Extension

I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file?

BACKUP DATABASE HerdofTwo TO DISK = 'HerdOfTwo_20240501'

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