Compiles and recompiles
I want to spend some time over the next few months looking at query compilation and the plan cache, and...
2011-08-16
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Blog Posts
Going Big with SSDs
Nimbus Data just sold 100TB of SSDs to eBay
I found a report recently that eBay had implemented 100TB of SSD storage from Nimbus...
2011-08-16
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Splitting ID’s with commas, updating them, and then Slamming them back together
Unfortunately my company still uses
MS Access DBs. That's Access 97 folks! I've battled many challenges over the
last couple months with...
2011-08-16
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SQL MCM Training – Day 8
Today Paul talked the whole day about HA DR Strategies and Backup/Restore operations.
I've already known a lot about Backup/Restores, but...
2011-08-16
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2, which is Build 10.50.2772.0. I count 14 fixes in...
2011-08-16
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SSIS - Inferred Member Insert in Fact Table Load
Recently while working on a different solution for loading inferred member solution in our fact table load I ran into...
2011-08-16
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Steel City SQL User Group
Tonight I will be doing a presentation on TEMPDB to the Steel City SQL Users Group in Birmingham AL. I...
2011-08-16
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Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today
I don’t do much with Oracle – at all. Once in a blue moon, I find a little project to do that might involve Oracle. I have never put...
2011-08-16
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Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today
I don’t do much with Oracle – at all. Once in a blue moon, I find a little project to do...
2011-08-16
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T-SQL Enhancements: OVER clause
With SQL Server Denali there has been made some improvements to the OVER clause, which I wasn’t even aware of...
2011-08-16
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Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers