Paul Hebhardt

I have been working with SQL Server for 15 years and have done everything from reporting to database design to ETL to architecture to administration. The way I see it, the cloud is the future, and SQL Azure is a great platform. Here are my musing on the subject.

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Dynamic Data Masking

Dynamic Data Masking
FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users such as credit card numbers, telephone numbers or last...

2015-02-26

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Runbooks in SQL Azure

Runbooks in SQL Azure
DECEMBER 2, 2014

SQL Azure Runbooks promise to be your “SQL Server Agent in the cloud”. They enable you to use PowerShell Scripts inside of SQL Azure...

2014-12-10

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Question of the Day

Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database

I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?

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