Android Adventures–Part 2
I’ve been living with my Droid X phone for a couple weeks now. It’s definitely a big change from my...
2010-11-29
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Blog Posts
Blog Round-up – What Are You Thankful For?
Last week I suggested to others that we institute a little idea theft and put together a few blog posts...
2010-11-29
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Buried
Coming back after a week off, even a holiday week when traffic is relatively low, is no fun. I have...
2010-11-29
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CDC Interoperability with Mirroring and Recovery
CDC Interoperability with Mirroring and Recovery
The following email came in to a discussion group last week asking several questions about...
2010-11-29
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Cleaning Up Blogs
I highly encourage people to blog. I know that not everyone is a writer, but I think that blogging helps...
2010-11-29
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Drumroll Please…
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 10
After dragging this review on for months now, it is finally time to bring this bad...
2010-11-29
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Drumroll Please…
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 10 After dragging this review on for months now, it is finally time to bring this bad boy home and wrap it up. I have...
2010-11-29
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Lock escalation : SQL Server 2008
Lock escalation is a event which occurs when SQL Server decides to upgrade a lock at a lower level hierarchy...
2010-11-29
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PASS Update #48
It’s the end of November and this will probably be my last update on PASS for the year as things...
2010-11-29
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TechEd 2011
TechEd will be in Atlanta next year, May 16-19, 2011 at the Georgia World Conference Center. I went this year...
2010-11-29
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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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