[Off-Topic] Beating Childhood Cancer
Note: I feel this post is important enough to post across all my blogs.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month here...
2014-09-09
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Brian Kelley
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4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier as a DBA
I was tagged by Mike Walsh (blog | twitter) in his post 4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier As a...
2014-09-05 (first published: 2014-08-28)
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Audit Webinar Tomorrow (4 September 2014)
I will be given a webinar on how to audit SQL Server through MSSQLTips.com.
Webinar Registration Link
The abstract:
Don’t become a statistic....
2014-09-03
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Continuous Integration/Delivery without Testing!
Anything we can do to automate our builds and deployment should be considered. After all, the point isn’t just to...
2014-08-28 (first published: 2014-08-25)
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Still a Need for a SQL Server Specific Organization
If you haven’t already, please read Denise McInerney’s post about why PASS no longer stands for the Professional Association for...
2014-08-20
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Guest Post on SQL Authority – Default Trace & Deleted Databases
I had the opportunity to write another guest post at SQL Authority:
Finding Out What Changed in a Deleted Database
This one...
2014-08-14
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One of Those Must Read Books – The Cuckoo’s Egg
I was reading a book about network security monitoring and it mentioned The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll. Stoll’s book has been...
2014-08-13
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Guest Editorial Live on SSC
My guest editorial is live on SQLServerCentral.com. My argument is a simple one: we don’t care about data and IT...
2014-08-11
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We Don't Care about Data and IT Security
Most of us say we care about IT and data security. Our actions speak differently.
2014-08-11
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Speaking on ETL Security
I will be giving a presentation on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) security at two user groups in the coming weeks.
Securing...
2014-07-25
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
Forums
non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers