Creating Placeholder Files
I recently wrote about placeholders for disk space. While you can use any file, like large images, video, etc., I’ve...
2014-12-01
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Blog Posts
Drill-through to Details from Reporting Services to Excel
Can an SSRS report be designed to drill-through to an Excel workbook in-context (showing only the same filtered detail data)?...
2014-12-01
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Gmail and Match.com are Conspiring to Breakup My Marriage
My wife and I are happily married. Both of us were surprised the other day when she started getting Match.com...
2014-12-01
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #111
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-12-01
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SQLFamily.Org
Back in March 2013 I wrote We Need A Place For SQLFamily News after the death of the spouse of...
2014-12-01
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You don’t really need ORDER BY do you?
You see dozens of blog posts and articles about how the order of a result set is not guaranteed without...
2014-12-01 (first published: 2014-11-19)
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Video articles
While thinking of ways to improve the way I can get SQL Server information across to those who follow my...
2014-11-30
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Giving away FREE Access to my SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery Deep Dive Course – Round 2
Originally posted on - Microsoft technologies and what I do for fun -:
Last year, as part of launching my very first...
2014-11-29
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A look at the SQL Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational Insights
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-24)
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Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-18)
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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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