Looking Up Email Addresses with PowerShell
A week or so ago Aaron Nelson (Blog|Twitter) put out a call for help on Twitter looking for anyone that...
2011-01-20
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Blog Posts
Now Let’s Vote for 24 Hours of PASS
Yesterday, I wanted you to vote for some SQLRally sessions, mine included. Today, let’s vote for the sessions for the...
2011-01-20
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PASS Update #49–SQLRally
I get a lot of questions about how SQLRally is going, which tells me that there is a lot of...
2011-01-20
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Policy for Ad-hoc Workloads
During my presentation at SQLSaturday 62 in Tampa I was asked by an attendee about having a policy to check...
2011-01-20
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 5
In the previous posts we’ve just been poking around with PowerShell and trying to make the examples something that actually means something to a SQL person whenever we ca. ...
2011-01-20
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 5
In the previous posts we’ve just been poking around with PowerShell and trying to make the examples something that actually...
2011-01-20
1,204 reads
Remember OBJECTPROPERTY(..) when investigating objects.
The object property function appears to be often overlooked.
This function will tell us about any schema scoped object in the...
2011-01-20
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SSMSDeploy 1.1 Now Available
Fixed a couple of issues and made some GUI tweaks. Please see the download page for the latest version, and...
2011-01-20
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Tips & Tricks for DBAs Writing Their First Article
I have been writing full or part-time for nearly 30 years, and I have written and edited hundreds of articles....
2011-01-20
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31 Days of SSIS – SQL Server Configuration (18/31)
31 Days of SSIS
The last post in the 31 Days of SSIS talked about the use of environmental variables. As...
2011-01-19
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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