#ThankfulThursday
Wednesday March 13th 2024 I had the honor of speaking at the Redgate Summit in Atlanta and got to meet a lot of new people and get to hang...
2024-03-20 (first published: 2024-03-15)
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Tim Radney
There Is Insufficient Free Space on Disk Volume To Create the Database
I have been involved in countless database migrations. Most of the time I have access to the existing source servers and future destination servers. In cases where you have...
2024-02-26 (first published: 2024-02-15)
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Getting Started With SQL Server Always Encrypted
Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 introduced a new security feature for SQL Server databases called Always Encrypted. Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data,...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-02-04)
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Careful When Changing SQL Server Database File Extensions
I recently had a friend reach out to me about database performance dropping drastically. I asked if anything had changed recently on the server, and they told me that all...
2024-01-08
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Dynamic Data Masking – SQL Server
Use Dynamic Data Masking to protect your data
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2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-03)
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What is Azure SQL
I get asked about Azure SQL very often. This is a topic that I’ve written about and taught many times. To be honest, this is a rather large topic...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-10-25)
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SQL Server Recovery Models
When I review customers database environments, I always check to see what the recovery model is for their databases and review that with the customer. I often times have...
2023-11-15
4 reads
Are You Protected from Ransomware
There have been many organizations that have become victims of ransomware over the years. Occasionally we hear about some high-profile cases in the news. Most every case I’ve read...
2023-09-19
2 reads
SQL Server Patching
Why should you patch your SQL Server instances? Compliance, stability, security, reliability, functionality, and more. Microsoft regularly releases updates to SQL Server known as Cumulative Updates (CUs). Cumulative updates...
2023-08-15
18 reads
Why You Should Test Your SQL Server Backups
My number one reason that you should test your backups is to make sure you know how to restore/recover. The absolute worst time to learn how to restore is...
2023-07-10
7 reads
Blogs
Ways to land data into Fabric OneLake
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric is rapidly gaining popularity as a unified data platform, leveraging OneLake as...
A Very Cool Benefit in SSMS 21
By Steve Jones
I saw a post from Erin that Preview 2 is available. I’d gotten a...
AI Helping with an API
By Steve Jones
Can an AI help me with some database API work? Let’s see. This is...
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Question of the Day
The New Log File
I have a detached database from SQL Server 2019, called TDE_Primer. This database had a 100MB data file and a 73MB log file. The log file was lost, so I need to run this code:
USE [master] GO CREATE DATABASE [TDE_Primer] ON ( FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\TDE_Primer.mdf' ) FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG GOHow big is the new log file? See possible answers