Picture this, you’re happily backing up your database to a Azure blob storage until suddenly it starts mysteriously failing with the error… Write to backup block blob device https://******...
2023-11-28 (first published: 2023-11-27)
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Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about security. Do we really know how secure our SQL Servers are?...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-26)
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This is a question that’s come up twice this morning, firstly where can we find a history of database snapshots and secondly where can we find a history of...
2023-08-30 (first published: 2023-08-14)
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xp_cmdshell is an extended SQL stored proc that allows users to run Windows command prompt commands from within SQL. Sound scary? It might, but is xp_cmdshell really a security...
2023-04-26 (first published: 2023-04-12)
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SQL doesn’t really give us too many tools out of the box to allow us to spot when someone may be up to no good. We can look at...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-29)
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The question of encryption seems to be coming up a lot recently. I’ve had a number of people asking me about how to go about encrypting SQL Server. SQL...
2023-01-25 (first published: 2023-01-17)
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Here’s a quick one for today and is an issue that had me stumped for a while. It’s not one that I’d come across before and there isn’t really...
2022-11-28 (first published: 2022-11-16)
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This was an interesting question that I was asked yesterday and something that I’d never really thought of before. Can you delete the top x number of rows based...
2022-09-30 (first published: 2022-09-15)
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Have you ever had the need to attach a large number of database in one go? There’s no way to attach multiple databases in SSMS or via script, so...
2022-08-24 (first published: 2022-08-15)
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Sometimes I find remembering where a particular server sends its backups to a nightmare. You might have servers backing up to different locations, you might have different locations for...
2022-06-16
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By Steve Jones
As I’ve aged, I find myself struggling to read many things in my life....
For this month’s #PGSQLPhriday 014 blogging event, Pavlo Golub has asked a pretty simple...
By Kevin3NF
In SQL Server, the terms “set-based” and “row-based” refer to different approaches or styles...
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The installation of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express on a virtual machine takes around...
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