Dharmendra Keshari

Dharmendra is a SQL Server/Microsoft Data Platform professional with over eight years of experience. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on blogs, speaking at several SQL events. His passion and focus is to explore and share more and more on SQL Server.

SQL Database File Wise Disk Space Monitoring

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

As a DBA, you get alerts many times regarding the database file space issue. To address the issue, you may...

2017-04-21

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Microsoft Data Platform – MVP 2017!!!

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

I’m very pleased and delighted to share that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award 2017. This...

2017-04-14

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Read Statistics Histogram using DMV

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

DMV: sys.dm_db_stats_histogram (object_id, stats_id)
For a long time, the DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS command was the only way to get information about statistics....

2017-02-22

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Out of memory error because of the very low virtual address space – Error 701 – Trace Flag 8075

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

If you are dealing with a SQL Server which got a lot of memory, you may encounter the out of...

2017-02-20

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After migrating SQL Server from 2005 to higher version, the waits type PAGELATCH_UP increased

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

Recently, I experienced an interesting issue where I found SQL Server wait type PageLatch_UP went up drastically after migration. Let’s...

2017-02-06

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SQL Server Service Information

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

DMV: sys.dm_server_services
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and SQL Server 2012 has a new set of DMVs. One of them...

2017-01-11

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Disk Space Monitoring using SQL Server DMV

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

DMV : sys.dm_os_volume_stats
Being a SQL Server database administrator, you may often receive alerts or asked by Senior DBAs to check, if...

2017-01-09

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New String Function – TRIM – in SQL Server vNext

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

As SQL developer, you must have often come across a scenario where you need to remove the empty spaces at...

2017-01-06

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When was SQL Server installed?

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

In this blog post. Let us learn about how to retrieve date and time when the SQL Server was installed. To retrieve...

2017-01-04

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Identifying Blocking Chain in SQL Server

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!!
I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. I always try to review my...

2017-01-01

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Blogs

PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Day 3 Keynote

It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired,...

A New Word: Skidding

skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but...

PASS Summit – Thursday

By Brian Kelley

Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support...

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Step by step guide to setup PostgreSQL on Docker

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Backing up the Database Encryption Key

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Question of the Day

Backing up the Database Encryption Key

In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this:

USE Sales;  
GO  
CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY  
WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256  
ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert;  
GO

This works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK?

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