2014-03-31
1,563 reads
Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
One of the biggest mistakes we can make when troubleshooting is to confuse the necessary responsibility of observing activity that...
2014-02-11
1,498 reads
Why no discussion of MarkLogic / NoSQL security in light of Obamacare security fiasco?
We are awaiting Polar Vortex 2 in New England and are set to have more snow dumped on us starting...
2014-01-21
1,072 reads
Best advice I ever got on negotiating consulting rates and salary negotiations
Back when I was getting ready to take the plunge and begin consulting I sought advice from a friend who...
2014-01-20
782 reads
sometimes, you have to piss people off
Just a quick note today on being effective.
For better or for worse, I was raised by parents who had me...
2014-01-16
664 reads
2013-12-24
575 reads
Microsoft, can you please elaborate (Caution about CredSSP)?
Microsoft publishes the following caution about enabling the CredSSP Windows Group Policy:
Caution: Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) authentication, in which...
2013-12-04
902 reads
JFK
“There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And...
2013-11-21
624 reads
hacked
ugggh.
My Drupal site in AWS EC2 was hijacked and is being used by the hijackers to do port scans.
Who said...
2013-11-06
598 reads
If you buy a Hyundai, don't expect BMW results
This sort of ties in to my last post on denying reality.
Managing expectations is the most important thing to success...
2013-10-11
690 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Brian Kelley
I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...
SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups
By Steve Jones
I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Managing unused indexes
While doing some housekeeping activity on several old but large production databases, I come...
Cloud Performance Considerations
How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...
Question of the Day
Striped Backup File Limits
In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?
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