Replication Latency
I've used Replication a lot over the years and contrary to the opinions of most DBA’s I know, I think it...
2013-01-25
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Chris McGowan
SQL Server 365 - Fantastic First Year In Numbers
So, tomorrow marks one year since I started blogging here on SQL Server 365 and what a year it has...
2012-12-31
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Active Directory Group Membership and Powershell
I’ve done my fair share of work with Active Directory over the years and LDAP has helped immensely, it did...
2012-12-19
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Tables without a Primary Key
As well as creating the script for yesterday’s post on finding Tables without a Clustered Index I tweaked the script...
2012-12-06 (first published: 2012-11-30)
5,221 reads
Tables without a Clustered Index
Yesterday while adding some new logic to an existing process I noticed an unacceptable level of performance degradation with the...
2012-11-29
1,538 reads
Unused Indexes
A sound indexing strategy is paramount to performance in an OLTP system. Not having the correct indexes in place can...
2012-11-27
2,549 reads
Database Mirroring Performance Counters
This week’s SQL Skills insider email contains a simple but often too true scenario regarding database mirroring. If you haven’t...
2012-11-21 (first published: 2012-11-14)
2,724 reads
Database Mirroring Error
I have been setting up multi instance database mirroring for the last couple of days along with some other DR...
2012-10-26
651 reads
Create Database Script
I always try to enforce standards across all the SQL Servers I manage, it makes tons of administrative tasks much...
2012-09-21
1,233 reads
tablediff Utility
I recently stumbled across a little gem of a utility called tablediff. I have been working a lot with replication...
2012-09-20
6,736 reads
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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