Restore Master From Backup
There are a few posts running around talking about restoring master from backup. Thomas LaRock has a fantastic "How To:...
2014-01-15
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Blog Posts
Sausage Making
For those who don’t know, I work for Red Gate Software. I’m not a developer, but I work directly for...
2014-01-15 (first published: 2014-01-08)
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Should You Run For the PASS Board? How Do You Decide?
Here are some of the questions I ask when someone is thinking about running for the Board:
Are you eligible? Read...
2014-01-15
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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V4.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...
2014-01-15
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SQL Server Filtered Index Performance
Filtered Index – Database Performance
SQL Server 2012 includes filtered indexes and is a great feature for Business Intelligence and Reporting databases. ...
2014-01-15
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Two-Factor Authentication
Something you have and something you know – that’s the heart of two-factor, sometimes called multi-factor, authentication. RSA was for years...
2014-01-15 (first published: 2014-01-09)
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2014 Polar Plunge #SQLPlunge
In just a couple months… on March 1… I’m going to jump into a lake in Minnesota. Now it’s cold...
2014-01-14
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Flash sale – discount code for SQL Saturday Nashville Precon
Announcing a flash sale today from 10a-12p Central time for my upcoming SQL Saturday Nashvillepreconference training session ‘Virtualization for SQL...
2014-01-14
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Google Buys Nest
I was a bit sad to see that Google bought Nest. I like upstarts that see a problem and solve...
2014-01-14
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How to throttle your Storage with Resource Governor in SQL Server 2014
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-14
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Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Do the Experts Become...
Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments...
Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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