MCM Live Blog – Week January 10
Watching videos?! Su-ure!
Week five and it seems like time is going by faster than I had expected it would. As...
2011-01-11
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Blog Posts
Quietly Professional
The conventional wisdom tends to hold that you should trumpet your accomplishments to your boss, though in a way that...
2011-01-11
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Resolutions For 2011
This post is a part of T-SQL Tuesday, a monthly event where SQL bloggers post about a common topic. This...
2011-01-11
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Rich Embedded Text Formatting in Reports
I’ve recently come to realize what a truly remarkable feature it is to be able to
format report text using simple...
2011-01-11
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TSQL Tuesday 14: Committed
Woohoo, It’s TSQL Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuesday!!! This month we are being hosted by one-half of the MidnightDBA – Jen McCown (Blog | Twitter), and...
2011-01-11
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TSQL Tuesday 14: Committed
For this TSQL Tuesday post, I will just add a short list of my professional goals for this next year. Otherwise, this post would be mostly about my non-professional...
2011-01-11
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T-SQL Tuesday 14: Resolutions #TSQL2sDay
Time for the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2011. This month Jen McCown (Blog | @midnightdba) is hosting the event. The topic...
2011-01-11
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T-SQL Tuesday 14: Techie Resolutions for You not Me
Is it just me or has the community done the whole “What are my goals for this year” thing to...
2011-01-11
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TSQL Tuesday: Resolutions
Sounds like a good action adventure movie. The theme this month on TSQL Tuesday, thanks to our host, Jen McCown...
2011-01-11
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T-SQL Tuesday: Resolutions
In my invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014, I picked the topic “Resolutions”, clearly to play on the new year. The...
2011-01-11
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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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