#ThankfulThursday
Wednesday March 13th 2024 I had the honor of speaking at the Redgate Summit in Atlanta and got to meet a lot of new people and get to hang...
2024-03-20 (first published: 2024-03-15)
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Wednesday March 13th 2024 I had the honor of speaking at the Redgate Summit in Atlanta and got to meet a lot of new people and get to hang...
2024-03-20 (first published: 2024-03-15)
123 reads
I have been involved in countless database migrations. Most of the time I have access to the existing source servers and future destination servers. In cases where you have...
2024-02-26 (first published: 2024-02-15)
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Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 introduced a new security feature for SQL Server databases called Always Encrypted. Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data,...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-02-04)
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I recently had a friend reach out to me about database performance dropping drastically. I asked if anything had changed recently on the server, and they told me that all...
2024-01-08
Use Dynamic Data Masking to protect your data
The post Dynamic Data Masking – SQL Server appeared first on Tim Radney.
2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-03)
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I get asked about Azure SQL very often. This is a topic that I’ve written about and taught many times. To be honest, this is a rather large topic...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-10-25)
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When I review customers database environments, I always check to see what the recovery model is for their databases and review that with the customer. I often times have...
2023-11-15
There have been many organizations that have become victims of ransomware over the years. Occasionally we hear about some high-profile cases in the news. Most every case I’ve read...
2023-09-19
Why should you patch your SQL Server instances? Compliance, stability, security, reliability, functionality, and more. Microsoft regularly releases updates to SQL Server known as Cumulative Updates (CUs). Cumulative updates...
2023-08-15
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My number one reason that you should test your backups is to make sure you know how to restore/recover. The absolute worst time to learn how to restore is...
2023-07-10
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By Chris Yates
A brief introduction to the tool and its advantages for database migrations DevOps is...
In a previous blog post we went through how to build a Docker container...
Businesses are drowning in data, but starving for insights. That's where SQL experts swoop...
I'm tracing activity on one database and would like to include the client_app_name in...
select Custno, Addr1, City, Res_Phone, Bus_Phone, Fax_Phone, Marine_Phone, Pager_Phone, Other_Phone, email1, email2 from customer...
I'm only processing 50,000 records not everything from the Table where there are 250,00...
I want to mark a transaction in the log as a recovery point. How do I do this in my code if I use the transaction, myTran?
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