Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) SQL Server 2008
Transparent data encryption, otherwise known as TDE is one of the new features introduced in SQL Server 2008.
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What a fortnight I had
This has been one of the most stressful fortnight in this company. I did not feel this stressed when our...
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How Humans Behave
It is strange how people react in different circumstances. Yesterday while going through the forums, there was an interesting post....
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What a day to start Blogging
I have been thinking of writting a blog for the past 6 months but never had time or could I...
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Why Object Qualification is important.
You have all read about why object qualification is important. You also must have heard of why stored Proc should not have sp_ as prefix to the name. Now let us proove if this is all true.
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Importance of UPSERT
A simple UPSERT can reduce reads on tables. This in turn will increase the performance of a DB.
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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