Monica Rathbun

Monica lives in Virginia and is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform. She has over 15 years of experience working with a wide variety of database platforms with a focus on SQL Server. She is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences on topics including performance tuning and configuration management. She is the Leader of the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group and a Mid-Atlantic PASS Regional Mentor. She is passionate about SQL Server and the SQL Server community, doing anything she can to give back. Monica can always be found on Twitter (@sqlespresso) handing out helpful tips.

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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: )

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Question of the Day

Getting The Database Name

I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line. 

sqlcmd -S localhost -E
At the command line, I run these two commands: 
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME()
GO
What is returned?

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