Getting Drive Info, Part 5, the SSIS WMI Data Reader Task
In the final installment of the Getting Drive Info series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), SSIS will...
2010-12-04
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Blog Posts
What PASS means to me.
I first heard of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) in connection with the PASS Summit. I had a several...
2010-12-04
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Book Review: Alas, Babylon
I just re-read Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank ($10 @ Amazon). It’s a bit of a touchstone for me. It was...
2010-12-03
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 6, 2010
Took a break from posting this last Friday due to the holidays. But I'm back with the weekly updates.
Monday
PASS Data Warehousing/BI...
2010-12-03
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How Many Have I Read?
I saw this on Facebook, and while I’m not sure of the list, I reproduced it here. I think that...
2010-12-03
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MCM – Useful Resources
This is just a short post for a Friday. There has been a lot written over the past few weeks...
2010-12-03
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RTFM365 Week 0
For the next year, I will read from SQL Server Books Online a little every day, and blog about it weekly. ...
2010-12-03
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Signal Waits and Resource Waits...a clarification
Signal Waits vs. Resource Waits
During my presentation at SQLSaturday#59, I spoke about the categories of wait types, such as...
2010-12-03
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What You Practice
I saw a very interesting blog at 37 Signals on the quote “the things you do more often are the...
2010-12-03
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All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/2/2010
I’ve got to figure out a good way to present a regular summary of what we do every week. Until...
2010-12-02
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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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