What if your database server was hacked and all your data was deleted?
Recently in the news an article circulated about a coordinated attack by a team of hackers known as Anonymous. Information...
2012-11-19
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Blog Posts
Time Pass With Transaction Log - Part 2 Basics
As part of this Transaction Log internal series, In this article We are going to revisit some basic properties of Transaction log.Though architecture, purpose...
2012-11-18 (first published: 2012-11-15)
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Another Dive into Transaction Log File Forensics
Over the past three years since I first took a look at the
insides of a Transaction Log file, I have...
2012-11-16 (first published: 2012-11-06)
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circle of trust
I have heard it said that a former US President once remarked "People tell you who they are by their...
2012-11-16
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Develop a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy
Develop a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Strategy – Protecting your company’s most valuable asset and keeping that asset available is a very...
2012-11-16
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HDInsight and Buggy Whips
I sat the through the big announcements at the 2011 PASS Summit about the partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop. I...
2012-11-16
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HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features
HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features New features for the HP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) V2 appliance for SQL Server PDW have been announced! Highlights: Lower price point (backup...
2012-11-16
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HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features
HP Announcement: PDW V2 Appliance Features
New features for the HP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) V2 appliance for SQL Server...
2012-11-16
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syslogins
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-16
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysmembers
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-16
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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