SSRS – Using a List Item to Display Details
How many times have you been asked to develop a report that displays the details for a specified group? For...
2013-03-11
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Blog Posts
Time to Chat
The greatest part of my job is that I get to travel all over the world to present different technical...
2013-03-11
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User Group Marketing
I blogged about this back in September of 2010, but technology changes so it’s time to revisit this again. Now...
2013-03-11
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PowerShell Usage in DBA Work — Case Study 2 / 7
As a DBA in a complex environment, we frequently need to backup various environment information. One of the backups is...
2013-03-10
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Chennai SQL Server User Group Looking For Sponsors
Chennai SQL Server Group (CSSUG), one of the most active UG in India planning to conduct major SQL Server event (Q2 this...
2013-03-08
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Conversation History: The Continuing Case Against GUIDs
We had a cooperative relational database design exercise at the office last week as part of our regular department "Lunch...
2013-03-08
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Dust Off That Resume
Since I started regularly attending SQL Saturday events some five years ago, I’ve sat in on a number of professional...
2013-03-08 (first published: 2013-02-28)
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Find Transaction Log information
Transaction Log in SQL server records all operation on database.This recoring depends on Recovery Model selected for database.You can find...
2013-03-08
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Reblog: March 1 to March 7
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-03-08
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SQL Saturday - Exeter
This time tomorrow morning I will be on my feet starting to deliver a 50 minute session at SQL Saturday...
2013-03-08
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Blogs
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...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
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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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