Managing Data Change
Often DBAs receive requests to manually manipulate production data. Ideally, all data changes should be performed through the appropriate application...
2011-05-20
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Blog Posts
MCITP 1 Down 3 To Go
Yesterday I posted a quick blurb about my certification plans this year. Well, ok not full blown plans , but you get the gist. I announced that I would...
2011-05-20
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MCITP 1 Down 3 To Go
Yesterday I posted a quick blurb about my certification plans this year. Well, ok not full blown plans , but you...
2011-05-20
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
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2011-05-20
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Presentation Deck For Hardware 201 at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19, 2011
I got the chance to give an updated version of Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance...
2011-05-20
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Quickly Find Your DDL Triggers with PowerShell
As a consultant I spend much of the first day or two at a client site discovering everything I can...
2011-05-20
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Re-blog – May 13-19
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Oddly enough,...
2011-05-20
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Replicating XML Columns
One caveat that’s worth mentioning is replicating the XML data type in
SQL Server using Merge Replication. Sometimes, when replicating...
2011-05-20
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SQL Lunch Returns: MVP Max Trinidad (Let’s Talk about SQL Powershell)
I know you have missed the crazy antics, but after taking a short hiatus from my community contributions, the SQL...
2011-05-20
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Watch out, Visual Studio 2010 does not support BI
When Visual Studio 2010 was released about a year ago, I was very excited and wanted to quickly open up...
2011-05-20
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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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