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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It’s #TSQL2sday time! This month’s invitation has been sent out by Brent Ozar and he asks us to describe the most recent issue – or the last ticket –...
2024-02-23 (first published: 2024-02-13)
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proluctance – n. the paradoxical urge to avoid doing something you’ve been looking forward to – opening a decisive letter, meeting up with a friend who’s finally back in...
2024-02-23
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Last week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) put out an emergency directive which ordered federal agencies to pull Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure installations from...
2024-02-23 (first published: 2024-02-05)
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We have numerous Azure Analysis Services servers running in the cloud and needed a way to have near-real time monitoring of the queries being run. This KQL query will...
2024-02-21 (first published: 2024-02-06)
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I was working with a customer that was doing some error handling in procs and helped them do some error tracking. As we were working through things, I realized...
2024-02-21 (first published: 2024-02-07)
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As a follow up to my blog Common Data Mesh exceptions, I wanted to discuss various types of data mesh topologies I am seeing being built. I put them...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-01-30)
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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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What to do? At some point we will want to do something with delta lake and so I wanted to explore the options. Before we do...
2024-02-17
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maugry – adj. afraid that you’ve been mentally deranged all your life and everybody around you knows, but none of them mention it to you directly because they feel...
2024-02-16
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By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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