SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Having a Plan for Every Situation
Today’s SQL University post will highlight the need to have a methodology to address issues that we as IT professionals...
2011-05-27
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Blog Posts
Endpoints Need Privileges Too
Yesterday I delivered a session for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on Service Broker. In preparing for the session I...
2011-05-26
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MCITP: 2 Down 2 to go
It’s time for the weekly update. Much like last week, we had more issues with taking this exam today. I scheduled exam 70-433 for first thing in the morning...
2011-05-26
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MCITP: 2 Down 2 to go
It’s time for the weekly update. Much like last week, we had more issues with taking this exam today. I...
2011-05-26
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No Shrink-y Tempdb
I caught the end of a Twitter conversation the other day between Wes Brown (Blog | @WesBrownSQL), Paul Randal (blog | @PaulRandal),...
2011-05-26
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Random Ordering of Results using NEWID
A discussion of how NEWID can be used to help randomize the results returned from a SQL query.
A scenario I...
2011-05-26
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SQL Server, Storage and You Part 2!
I saw 500 faces an rocked them all!
To those who attended my webinar today THANK YOU! If you didn’t…. There...
2011-05-26
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SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Keeping an Open Mind
Office politics during a major event can be dangerous. It pays to be seen as contributing to solving the problem...
2011-05-26
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SQLRally 2011 Women in Technology Luncheon
On May 12, during the first-ever SQLRally , we held the first-ever SQLRally Women in Technology luncheon! I moderated, and our...
2011-05-26
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SSRS Error: Unable to connect to remote server error
One fine day when I tried to connect to one of my staging report server I got the
“Unable to connect...
2011-05-26
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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 ...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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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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