Back up Encryption
Nowadays security breaches happen way to frequently. As DBA’s we should all take extra care with sensitive data and ensure we...
2018-09-11 (first published: 2018-09-05)
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Nowadays security breaches happen way to frequently. As DBA’s we should all take extra care with sensitive data and ensure we...
2018-09-11 (first published: 2018-09-05)
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Microsoft gives you two purchasing models for your Azure SQL Databases (SQL DB), a DTU and a vCore based model...
2018-09-05 (first published: 2018-08-22)
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Microsoft has long given us DBA tools and suggestions to help tune databases, to fix queries with indexes, and many...
2018-08-28
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Starting in SQL Server 2012 and in Azure SQL Database, Microsoft introduced the concept of a contained database. A contained...
2018-07-11 (first published: 2018-07-05)
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July 1st is a day all Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) wait patiently at their computers hitting F5 over and...
2018-07-02
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I typically don’t write opinion posts, but given recent events I thought it was important to follow up on one of my tweets....
2018-06-29 (first published: 2018-06-14)
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Ever seen the below error? Until this week I hadn’t. So, I figured I’d take a little time and introduce...
2018-06-28 (first published: 2018-06-20)
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A few weeks ago, I wrote Part 1, 2 and 3 of this series, which was a beginner’s guide to Always Encrypted. In part...
2018-06-25 (first published: 2018-06-13)
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Following up on my last post about the Cardinality Estimator let’s talk about column statistics and how they work and...
2018-05-30
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Sometimes people speak “SQL” and expect you know all the terminology. In recent a conversation about query plans I was...
2018-05-24
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By Brian Kelley
The bottom line here is this: the idea that a CSP takes care of...
In today's data-driven world, SQL (Structured Query Language) is a blazing-hot skill. It's your...
By Steve Jones
I leave tonight for Australia. I was in London 3 days ago, so this...
I have been asked to fine-tune the following SQL that was written by a...
In this scenario, I seek assistance in implementing row-level permissions for a table named...
I've tried different credentials, target server versions, etc. hitting our Primavera WSDL. Works great...
What are the initial config sizes for the tempdb primary data files, secondary data files, and log files in SQL Server 2022?
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