PASS Summit Session Selection is Open
This year the Program Committee decided to open up the selection process to the community. I'm anxious to see how...
2011-05-11
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Blog Posts
Patch Week
My email account started getting notices of Windows patches yesterday, indicating it’s patch week again. If you manage Windows devices,...
2011-05-11
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Pragmatic Tools Week: Task Factory
If you've ever spent any time doing SSIS development work, you'll eventually come to a point when developing something and...
2011-05-11
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SQLRally Overdrive: Birds of a Feather Discussions Event
Just wanted to post a quick note/invitation to everyone to come join us on Thursday, May 12th from 5:45-7:00 for...
2011-05-11
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Troubleshooting Performance -1
Whenever you get a call from user that they are facing any performance issue what would you do. As I...
2011-05-11
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TSQL Tuesday #18 - Using CTE to Analyze Disk IO
(TSQL Tuesday on Wednesday! - Apologies for the late entry - better late than never)
Today’s topic is CTE’s.Scientifically speaking, solids mostly expand...
2011-05-11
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T-SQL: Identifying, inserting and removing spaces in strings
Frequently, when working with strings you will need to identify, insert or remove spaces before, after or in between characters.
For example, you may...
2011-05-11
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Vote for My PASS Summit Sessions
Yes, this is absolutely a shameless post for self-promotion. However, since potential attendees get to offer input into what sessions...
2011-05-11
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100% Microsoft?
Reprinted from my editorial in Database Weekly.
When I was a junior DBA many years ago (even before the company I...
2011-05-10
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DevConnections Germany and DevConnections London Offers SQLServerCentral.com Track
SQLServerCentral.com will be offering SQL Server tracks at both the upcoming DevConnections in Germany and the UK this June.
The Germany...
2011-05-10
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item This Week's AI Trust Problem...
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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