Looking to interact with those proficient in Japanese
In the 1970s my mother and her younger sister married U.S. Marines. Both came to the States when their husbands...
2011-09-12
785 reads
Brian Kelley
- Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology
Don't Wait to Start Blogging
I was reading a post by Jonathan Fields (blog | twitter) about making bad guitars. Okay, so what does that have to...
2011-08-15
2,247 reads
Have the Time? Get in the Game.
This year there's a two step process for electing members to the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Board of Directors...
2011-08-11
881 reads
T-SQL Tuesday/Wednesday #21: A Crappy Workaround
A long time ago (in IT terms) in a galaxy far, far away I was helping an organization with a...
2011-08-10
2,064 reads
Functionality and User Experience are important, too
There are a few posts and articles around the security-scape lately concluding Windows 7 is more secure than OS X,...
2011-08-09
807 reads
Security Is Your Responsibility
My primary responsibility at my organization is no longer to be the security architect and incident response team lead. I...
2011-08-08
948 reads
MSSQLTips.com Kindle Contest
I'm always wary of contests to win free stuff, but the folks running MSSQLTips.com are legitimate (I write there as...
2011-08-04
1,042 reads
Rant: Security Isn't Sexy and It's a Shame
I grew up immersed in security. My father was a US Marine and going on and off base meant... security....
2011-08-03
1,230 reads
Bad Network Performance? Check the TCP Chimney Offload/Receive Side-Scaling/Network DMA Settings
We recently ran into a case where connecting to a Windows Server 2003 server with SQL Server installed on it,...
2011-08-02
15,660 reads
Bad Admins: Non-Production Servers
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-28
2,174 reads
Blogs
The Benefits of Teaching
By Brian Kelley
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...
Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!
By DataOnWheels
I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...
The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
By Steve Jones
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of...
Forums
Website Stability 2025/12/05
All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...
403 Forbidden
I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...
Question of the Day
Fabric Mirroring
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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