Recovering a TDE Database Without the Certificate
If you don’t have the backups of the certificate and private key from the old server, as well as the password used to encrypt the private key backup then...
2023-02-01
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Blog Posts
What is calling my T-SQL scalar function (millions of times)?
In this post we look at a method using Extended Events (XE) to identify what parent objects are calling a given SQL function and how often. The background is...
2023-02-01 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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When to have multiple data lakes
A question I get asked frequently from customers when discussing Data lake architecture is “Should I use one data lake for all my data, or multiple lakes?”. Ideally, you...
2023-02-01 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Daily Coping 31 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take a small step towards and important goal. One of my goals this year was to work on a way to score myself with...
2023-01-31
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Flyway Desktop Projects for My PoC
In a previous post, I set up the basic databases for the PoC project I’m working on. In this next post, we’ll get the Flyway Desktop projects set up...
2023-01-31 (first published: 2023-01-30)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 01-23-2022
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while since I had time to sit down and write out a Monday re-capThis past week was my birthday week. With all the...
2023-01-31
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Daily Coping 30 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to plan something fun and invite others to join you. The fun thing is actually skiing today. My wife and I wanted to get some...
2023-01-30
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EightKB 2023
EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2023…happening on May 24th. We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit here: – https://sessionize.com/eightkb-may-2023/...
2023-01-30 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Logic App errors out when using variables in a SharePoint Action
I have a Logic App that reads out a SharePoint library and stores all the documents found into Azure Blob Storage (ADF only supports Lists). I was trying to...
2023-01-30 (first published: 2023-01-18)
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Migrating or Recovering a TDE Protected Database
When encrypting a database with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a vital consideration is to make sure we are prepared for the scenario where something goes wrong. For instance, if...
2023-01-30
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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