Starting Your First Data Warehouse: A Practical Learning Guide
I had a great question asked of me the other day and thought I would turn the answer into a blog post. The question is “I’m an experienced DBA...
2025-11-12
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #192: SQL Server 2025 Backup Changes
I hosted this month, but I decided to put my own entry in as well. There are more things in this release than I expected, probably because of the...
2025-11-11
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Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server in 2025 and your sa login is still usable, you’re giving attackers a giant, blinking...
2025-11-10 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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Microsoft Purview: The Key Benefits of Data Governance
I still see a lot of confusion about the functionality of Microsoft Purview ever since multiple products were combined into it, so I wanted to write this blog to...
2025-11-10 (first published: 2025-10-15)
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Becoming a creator, my website experience
Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss our ALS journey. I realized we were writing about ALS on the Data on Wheels...
2025-11-08
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Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s for help. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Problem...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-22)
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The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate Software. A lot of these words are things that we aim to express to each...
2025-11-07
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Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs), DBAs sometimes face a frustrating scenario: replication stalls when a secondary replica or subscriber is...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m hosting. I was traveling a lot in October and didn’t sort out hosting for this...
2025-11-07
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Back at Small Data SF in 2025
Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the conference last year and thought it was a great event. Watching people talk about data...
2025-11-05
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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 ...
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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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