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
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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Rules of Holes #4: Do You Have the BIG Picture?
Some folks decry the concept of being in a 'Hole'. For them, there is no such thing as 'Technical Debt', no such thing as maintaining weak and wobbly legacy...
2012-11-16
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Rules of Holes #4: Do You Have the BIG Picture?
Some folks decry the concept of being in a 'Hole'. For them, there is no such thing as 'Technical Debt',...
2012-11-16
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Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Forums
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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