In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, we’re seeing folks react smartly by cancelling or rescheduling events where a large number of folks gather together. We have even seen...
2020-03-12
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Technical debt get deprioritized too often because business sees the word, “technical.” It doesn’t matter what the true meaning is. And it’s a big problem. It really needs proper...
2020-03-09 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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Midlands PASS (Columbia, SC) will be meeting on March 3, 2020, for our monthly user meeting. We’ve been on hiatus since the holidays but we should be meeting regularly...
2020-02-27
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I recently received the news that I’ve been renewed as a Friend of Red Gate. I’ve been a big fan of Red Gate since the days when SQL Compare...
2020-02-25
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ISACA has a SheLeadsTech webinar for tomorrow, February 25, 2020 titled Braving the Wilderness of Cybersecurity. Registration Link: https://www.isaca.org/education/online-events/lms_w022520 If you can’t make the talk, ISACA archives all webinars...
2020-02-24
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This is also posted to the ISACA Journal blog, Practically Speaking: As new technologies are developed, we have to stay up to date with them. More so than almost...
2020-01-08 (first published: 2020-01-02)
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Working with Microsoft, we determined that there is no BGP community for Azure’s Application Insights. As a result, I’ve created a feedback request for Microsoft to consider doing just...
2020-01-08 (first published: 2019-12-30)
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I mentioned on twitter that a family tragedy about a decade ago had resulted in a false start with respect to this goal: After a false start about a...
2019-11-07
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A new piece of malware which hooks into SQL Server, skip-2.0, has been making the tech media rounds. If you’ve not read about it yet or you’re looking for...
2019-10-25
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If you remember the flurry of news from the beginning of 2018 about side channel attacks called Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft has included in its July update a patch...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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One of the frequently quoted ETL best practices is to disable your non-clustered indexes...
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I hope you’re all enjoying the latest rev of the Microsoft Ignite conference as...
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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