Webcast Tomorrow: Building an Auditing Framework for SQL Server
Faced with auditing SQL Server on a regular basis with no 3rd party tools? Where do you start? That’s what...
2016-10-12
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Brian Kelley
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Reminder: Webinar today
This is a reminder that I’ll be giving a webinar today on managing SQL Server Agents jobs in a SQL...
2016-09-08
394 reads
Reminder: #SQLChat at lunch today
This is a reminder that we’ll having a #SQLChat this afternoon at 12 PM EDT. Here are the details:
SQLChat: Do...
2016-09-07
430 reads
SQLChat on Wednesday, Webinar on Thursday!
I’m participating in two community activities this week. One is a #SQLCchat on Twitter and the other is a webinar...
2016-09-06
361 reads
I wrote a SQL Server auditing whitepaper!
I recently collaborated with Idera to produce a short whitepaper on the top 5 things to audit in SQL Server...
2016-07-27
1,021 reads
Not More Than 16 Characters?!?
Microsoft, you’re killing me. This is the warning I received when typing in a password for Office 365:
I blinked when...
2016-06-16 (first published: 2016-06-10)
4,076 reads
Protecting Against Delete without Where
If I’m doing any manual work with T-SQL, I always begin every set of data change operations with BEGIN TRAN...
2016-06-13 (first published: 2016-06-09)
3,629 reads
A Different Type of Currency
Recently, a member of the community lamented that folks weren’t willing to provide an email address for free training. This...
2016-06-09
446 reads
Sights that just scream, “No!”
I’m at a conference, specifically a security conference. So I looked at the available WiFi connections. Among the conference and hotel specific...
2016-06-07
454 reads
Slides from 2016 Techno Security & Mobile Forensics Conference
I’ve completed both of my presentations at the 2016 Techno Security and Forensics Investigation Conference (#technosecurity). If you were able...
2016-06-07
516 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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