Rotating Expired SQL Server TDE Certificates
In general, SQL Server TDE certificates will expire at some point. In SQL Server, if we have setup TDE using...
2019-02-08 (first published: 2019-01-23)
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Chris
Big Changes for WaterOx Consulting
March of 2019 would have marked that start of the 8th year of WaterOx Consulting, Inc. running. That isn’t going...
2019-01-10
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Stretch Databases for the Budget Poor DBA
The post Stretch Databases for the Budget Poor DBA appeared first on WaterOx Consulting.
2018-03-28
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Upcoming Content
This is the reality of learning newer tech somewhat in depth and working with it. What this series of posts...
2017-07-24
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Upcoming Content
This is the reality of learning newer tech somewhat in depth and working with it. What this series of posts...
2017-07-24
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Conditionally Retry a Failed Job
We have jobs that run in the early morning to load data to our data warehouses and other systems, and...
2017-07-03 (first published: 2017-06-23)
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SQL Security Email Course
Today I am very excited to announce that I have (finally!) launched my email course covering the basics of SQL...
2017-04-19
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Identify SQL Accounts Without Password Policy Enforced
When ‘Enforce Password Policy’ for SQL Server logins is turned off, you can make your password anything you want! Hooray!...
2017-03-02
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Better SQL Agent Job Alerts
They kinda suck. I mean it is nice that we have the option for the SQL Agent to tell us...
2017-02-28 (first published: 2017-02-23)
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PowerShell -> Identify all SysAdmins in your SQL Server
No pressure. None whatsoever. There is just an Auditor standing behind you waiting for you to pull a list of...
2016-10-06 (first published: 2016-09-29)
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Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers