A New Word: Povism
povism – n. the frustration of being stuck inside your own head, unable to see your face or read your body language in context, only ever guessing how you...
2024-08-16
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Blog Posts
dbatools Required Filesystem Access for Database Restores
The Problem While performing an instance migration this spring, I happened upon something I didn’t expect in [dbatools](https://dbatools.io/). It should have been a simple backup/restore copy of the databases,...
2024-08-16 (first published: 2024-08-06)
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How We Built It: Beeper’s New Blog
Our special projects team was eager to build Beeper a new blogging home. Here's the beautiful result.
2024-08-16 (first published: 2024-08-15)
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Kilt Day!
This is a quick blog post to announce that I am reviving Kilt Day at PASS Data Community Summit. Over the last few years… ah hell, let’s just say...
2024-08-16 (first published: 2024-08-01)
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The Fediverse Files: Making Social Media Fun Again
Social media has become unruly and hard to navigate. (An understatement, we know.) How can the fediverse make social media fun again? Tune in.
2024-08-16
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Finding Where xp_cmdshell is Used
I saw a post recently where someone was concerned about where xp_cmdshell was in use inside their system. They felt it was a security risk, and decided to get...
2024-08-14 (first published: 2024-07-31)
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My Toolbox - SSMS
No matter how hard Azure Data Studio (ADS) is pushed by Microsoft, most DBAs still use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In this blog post, I’ll go through my...
2024-08-14 (first published: 2024-08-03)
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Denver 2024
It’s just a couple of days away from SQL Saturday Denver 2024. This Saturday, come join me at the Lowry Convention Center in Aurora for some great talks. We...
2024-08-14
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Syracuse 2024
I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at the first-ever SQL Saturday Syracuse on September 7th, 2024. I will be presenting Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation
2024-08-14
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Move to WordPress.com, and We’ll Handle the Migration for Free
For a limited time, we’ll move your existing WordPress site from any host to WordPress.com for free.
2024-08-13
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Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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