Back up Encryption
Nowadays security breaches happen way to frequently. As DBA’s we should all take extra care with sensitive data and ensure we...
2018-09-11 (first published: 2018-09-05)
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Nowadays security breaches happen way to frequently. As DBA’s we should all take extra care with sensitive data and ensure we...
2018-09-11 (first published: 2018-09-05)
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Microsoft gives you two purchasing models for your Azure SQL Databases (SQL DB), a DTU and a vCore based model...
2018-09-05 (first published: 2018-08-22)
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Microsoft has long given us DBA tools and suggestions to help tune databases, to fix queries with indexes, and many...
2018-08-28
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Starting in SQL Server 2012 and in Azure SQL Database, Microsoft introduced the concept of a contained database. A contained...
2018-07-11 (first published: 2018-07-05)
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July 1st is a day all Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) wait patiently at their computers hitting F5 over and...
2018-07-02
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I typically don’t write opinion posts, but given recent events I thought it was important to follow up on one of my tweets....
2018-06-29 (first published: 2018-06-14)
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Ever seen the below error? Until this week I hadn’t. So, I figured I’d take a little time and introduce...
2018-06-28 (first published: 2018-06-20)
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A few weeks ago, I wrote Part 1, 2 and 3 of this series, which was a beginner’s guide to Always Encrypted. In part...
2018-06-25 (first published: 2018-06-13)
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Following up on my last post about the Cardinality Estimator let’s talk about column statistics and how they work and...
2018-05-30
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Sometimes people speak “SQL” and expect you know all the terminology. In recent a conversation about query plans I was...
2018-05-24
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By Will Assaf
I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...
Database administrators (DBAs) are the backbone of data-driven organizations. If you're looking to break...
By Brian Kelley
Another security fundamentals topic is authentication versus authorization. For those who have a clear...
I have a SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition on CU 25. It has in-memory...
Experts, I am learning some skills so I can troubleshoot some performance-related issues. I...
What happens when I run this code:
SELECT p.ProductName , p.ProductCategory FROM dbo.Product AS p WITH (NOLOCK, TABLOCK);See possible answers