Removing a secondary replica database in Always On SQL Environment
Removing a database from an Always On availability group is pretty straight forward and can be accomplished by either ssms...
2018-06-19
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Blog Posts
South Florida Vacation Notes
I extended my trip to SQLSaturday South Florida for a couple days vacation. If I’m going to drive 3-1/2 hours...
2018-06-19
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SQL Saturday Houston is this weekend
I’m speaking along with many other amazingly talented professionals, including Adam from Guy In A Cube. If you’re in the...
2018-06-19
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SQL Server 2017 – SELECT INTO [A SPECIFIC FILEGROUP]
Forget about Adaptive Query Processing for a minute, what other feature have I been waiting for? SELECT INTO a specific...
2018-06-19
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SQLSat Houston This Weekend!
The wife and I are making the road trip this weekend to SQLSat Houston and we're both speaking!This SQLSaturday Houston is going to be great - looking forward to...
2018-06-19
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Verify Allocation Unit Size for SQL Server
Why Do I Care? Everything in SQL Server is stored on disk in 8K pages. The Microsoft recommended best practice...
2018-06-19
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Verify Allocation Unit Size for SQL Server
Why Do I Care? Everything in SQL Server is stored on disk in 8K pages. The Microsoft recommended best practice...
2018-06-19
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU7 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU7), which is...
2018-06-18
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU7 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU7), which is...
2018-06-18
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Backup Your On Premise SQL Server Directly to an AWS S3 Bucket
I’ve been having a little play around with AWS recently and was looking at S3 (AWS’ cloud storage) when I...
2018-06-18
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Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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