SQL RAP
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About one year ago I had a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer...
2013-03-12
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday 194
On the weekend of the 9th March 2013, the second SQL Saturday in the UK occurred. A massive thank you...
2013-03-12
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SQL Server : Index Part 3 :Explaining the Clustered Table Structure
In SQL server, there are two types of table based on the storage.A table with clustered index is called Clustered...
2013-03-12
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Three cheers for SQL 2012 Analysis Services
I had some sales reports that were running poorly on SQL 2005 Analysis Services. The information on the reports was...
2013-03-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #040: File and Filegroup Wisdom
Backstory Each month the SQL community comes together for an important party. This is the blog party that was the brain child of Adam Machanic (Twitter) known as T-SQL Tuesday....
2013-03-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #040: File and Filegroup Wisdom
Backstory
Each month the SQL community comes together for an important party. This is the blog party that was the brain...
2013-03-12
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 27 (Scripting SQL Objects)
Welcome to Day 27 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-03-11 (first published: 2013-02-27)
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Building My Next Workstation–Part 5
With the motherboard and CPU installed I was ready to add the final and perhaps easiest parts to the build....
2013-03-11
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Colorado speaking tour
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be doing a tour of the 4 SQL Server user groups in central Colorado...
2013-03-11
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DMV-2 : Explore the secrets of session…… sys.dm_exec_sessions
sys.dm_exec_sessions DMV (Dynamic Management View), delineated by BOL as follows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176013.aspx
Returns one row per authenticated session on SQL Server. sys.dm_exec_sessions is a server-scope view...
2013-03-11
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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