Backup Your Certificate for TDE
If you’ve enabled TDE, you need to be sure you have a copy of the certificate that protects the Database...
2013-09-03 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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Blog Posts
Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” today at 11am CST for the PASS DBA Fundamentals...
2013-09-03
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Cumulative Update – 8 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available !
The 8th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the...
2013-09-03
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Duplicate Statistics
The Setup:
Standard best practise is to have auto create and auto update statistics set for SQL Server databases. But there...
2013-09-03 (first published: 2013-08-28)
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Introduction to Integrity: Interpreting DBCC CHECKDB Results
I want to start a short 6 post series to serve as an introduction to integrity in SQL Server. Most...
2013-09-03
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #47
It’s Tuesday, it’s time for weekly round-up #47. As an introduction, if you follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the...
2013-09-03
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My Next Phone May Be a Nokia
I really like my Windows Phone. Yes, there are not as many apps as on a Droid or iPhone. But...
2013-09-03
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Retiring of the MCM Certifications, Part II
Image acquired from Twitter
In my recent blog post on “Retiring of the MCM Certifications”, there is a link to a...
2013-09-03
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SQL – Find CPU,Memory,Connections, VLF’s,I/O of all the Databases
Find CPU, Memory, No Of Connections/databases and VLF’s and I/O details in one single script.
You just need to run the...
2013-09-03
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SQL Server – How to Perform Striped Database Backup & Restore Using T-SQL Command
Even though there are more pros than cons, Striping database backups are often overlooked by many DBAs. Based on my...
2013-09-03
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Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Work with On-Premises...
Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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