Slammer, Alive…Barely
Slammer
By now you must have heard of the SQL Slammer worm. It was quite an infectious little nuisance. The harm...
2012-01-30 (first published: 2012-01-24)
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Blog Posts
SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes
During a large ETL process from a staging table , UPDATE was creating an error on a CONVERT.
Msg 245, Sev 16,...
2012-01-30
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System Base Tables
On January 19th, I published a post about the Dedicated Administrator Connection. I spoke very briefly of the system base tables in that article. Today, I want to dive...
2012-01-30
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System Base Tables
On January 19th, I published a post about the Dedicated Administrator Connection. I spoke very briefly of the system base...
2012-01-30
1,373 reads
The affordable self-service BI revolution has started.
I am officially announcing that I have now become an independent consultant and business owner. Becoming independent has always been...
2012-01-30
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The Idera ACE Program, So Far
The Idera ACE program is something I’ve been involved with for over a year now. I’ll share a bit of...
2012-01-30
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When DBCC INPUTBUFFER disappoints
Today we have an alert from one of the client server about blocking, I have immediately start looking at it...
2012-01-30
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2012-01-29
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Detect Worst Performing SQL Queries
This series of Videos will walk through how to detect worst performing sql queries which is slowing down Microsoft SQL...
2012-01-29
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2012-01-29
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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 ...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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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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