Making an Operations Manager Module
Operations Manager 2007 R2 ships with Operations Manager Shell which is simply a provider with associated cmdlets for working with...
2011-01-04
858 reads
Blog Posts
MCM Live Blog – Week January 3
Watching videos?! Su-ure!
Surprisingly it’s now my fourth week of blogging about the things that I’m doing to study for the...
2011-01-04
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MCM Prep - Only ONE Transaction Log File
Unlike for data files, SQL Server does not use multiple files for the transaction log in any way that improves...
2011-01-04
781 reads
MCM Prep – Only ONE Transaction Log File
Unlike for data files, SQL Server does not use multiple files for the transaction log in any way that improves...
2011-01-04
790 reads
MCM Prep - Sliding the test
If you can’t cram enough for the test, what’s the thing to do? Slide the test. I realized last night...
2011-01-04
769 reads
MCM Prep – Sliding the test
If you can’t cram enough for the test, what’s the thing to do? Slide the test. I realized last night...
2011-01-04
650 reads
Microsoft DreamSpark for Students
If you are a college or high school student, you can get a very valuable assortment of free software from...
2011-01-04
1,315 reads
MockingJay – a review
After a long wait, I have finally read the final installment in the “Hunger Games” trilogy. I read the other...
2011-01-04
581 reads
MockingJay – a review
After a long wait, I have finally read the final installment in the “Hunger Games” trilogy. I read the other two books earlier in the year in 2010 and...
2011-01-04
8 reads
My 2010 Year in Review
While in Cincinnati for the first time since September of 2007, I heard on several occasions that I work too...
2011-01-04
403 reads
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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