Cloud? Chotto Matte Kudasai.
If you're not familiar with Chotto matte kudasai, it means "A moment, please," in Japanese. The cloud is big news....
2011-10-14
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Brian Kelley
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Speaking at the 2011 Carolina Technology Conference
On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, I will be speaking at the Carolina Technology Conference in Columbia, SC. I'm scheduled for...
2011-10-14
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A Disturbing Trend: Government Sponsored Malware
It is understandable that nations may undertake operations against other nations. This is believed to be the origin of StuxNet...
2011-10-13
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Piiiiiiiigs, er DBAs, in Space!
If you don't get the reference, it was a set of skits on the old Muppet Show and it starred...
2011-10-13
995 reads
Learn to Help Yourself
I used to work with a guy who was adamant that before you asked him for help, you had done the...
2011-10-11
1,300 reads
PASS Summit Attendees: Remember to Network and Maintain
Previously, when I had attended conferences, I had used them to attend as many seminars or talks as I could...
2011-10-10
1,413 reads
Advanced Persistent Threats and Us
In a blog post from last year, Richard Bejtlich (blog | twitter) talked about a concept called an Advanced Persistent Threat...
2011-10-07
1,321 reads
Detecting Security Updates on Vista/Windows 7/2008/2008R2
When trying to detect whether updates have been installed or not, there were several places we investigated:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UninstallHKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\HotFixHKLM\Software\Microsoft\UpdatesSome updates still write to...
2011-10-06
2,702 reads
Two Great Talks on the State of Internet Security
Recently I've started following the public work of Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. I've known...
2011-10-05
1,041 reads
Have end users who need an introduction to SQL Server book?
At the beginning of this year, my introductory text to SQL Server, appropriately titled Introduction to SQL Server, became available for sale....
2011-09-19
1,324 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...
Forums
how to write this query?
Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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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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