2019-06-03
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Steve Jones
The Change Failure Rate
The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.
2019-06-03
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Keynoting at SQL Saturday #831–Christchurch
After our SQL in the City Summit in Brisbane last week, Hamish Watson () asked me if I’d do a short version of my keynote talk at the upcoming...
2019-06-02
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Moving to Serverless for Azure SQL DB
After the announcement of Serveless Azure SQL Datbase at //build/, I decided to give it a try. I have some Basic databases, so what would Serverless mean for me?...
2019-05-31 (first published: 2019-05-15)
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2019-05-31
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2019-05-30
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High Prices for High Security
I was excited to see the new Secure Enclave technology come to Always Encrypted (AE) in SQL Server 2019. I've thought that the way Microsoft implemented the AE technology in SQL Server 2016 was a start and a good step forward, but it had too many restrictions. Kind of like Availability Groups in 2012 and […]
2019-05-30
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2019-05-29
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Long Live All Passwords
Steve talks about passwords and new guidance from Microsoft that short expiration periods are unnecessary and unhelpful.
2019-05-29
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2019-05-28
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Blogs
SQL Server Containers Are Boring
Not really, but sort of. The beauty of containers, at least in a dev/test...
Public Role Permissions – Back to Basics
If you are being serious in your role, then the amount of times you...
It’s interesting how an OR short circuits.
I recently did a post on the case expression short circuting and received a...
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Always on AG and SQL Upgrade
Looking to upgrade from SQL Server 2014 to SQL 2016 which has always on...
Migration from server to server
I recently migrated from Windows 2003 SBS running SQL 2005 Express along with SSMS...
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