Always Encrypted was a new encryption feature added to SQL Server with the 2016 version of the product. Initially it was just available in enterprise edition, but from SQL...
2023-06-21 (first published: 2023-06-05)
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In this short post we look at the ability to be able to have (or not) indexes on columns encrypted using Always Encrypted.
2023-06-20
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There are countless queries you can find on internet to get list of tables, size of database, tables, indexes etc... Here is a one that I have used for...
2023-06-20
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Gethyn Ellis(t). Gethyn’s Invite to us is to write about the best piece of career advice you’ve received. One of the most...
2023-06-20
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Say, you have a query having performance issues and you decide to look it's graphical execution plan in SSMS (or other tools). If you are lucky, right off the...
2023-06-20 (first published: 2023-06-19)
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A customer asked about how they could organize their migration scripts in different ways to manage them and worried about it being complex. I decided to test a few...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-05-31)
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Let’s set the scene. You’ve built a wonderful, useful, and descriptive report for your stakeholders with a variety of tooltips that offer deeper insights. They love the tooltips, and...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-06-05)
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Hello Dear Reader! This past week was a busy one. As we've started to settle into the new house we are transitioning from eating out or having meals delivered,...
2023-06-19
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If you under promise and overdeliver then you will always have happy clients.
2023-06-19
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astrophe n the feeling of being stuck on Earth. Us geeks are supposed to love space, right? Science Fiction? The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Star Trek/Star Wars/Lost in...
2023-06-16
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By gbargsley
Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
By alevyinroc
I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a...
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
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