SQLSaturday#59 - It's A Wrap! - Summary of Our Saturday...
SQLSaturday#59 went off without a hitch! It was one awesome fun-filled day with our great speakers, sponsors, volunteers, and hundreds...
2010-11-21
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Blog Posts
Un-SQL Friday: Personal Branding – Don’t Bother
My friend Jen McCown of MidnightDBA fame issued a challenge last week called “Un-SQL Friday”. The inaugural topic is on...
2010-11-21
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What are you thankful for?
About this time last year, Digineer had an internal event where we could share messages of thanks. These messages were...
2010-11-21
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Where will I be?
After the great time everyone had at the PASS Summit this past week I am getting asked more and more...
2010-11-21
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Query
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
In the...
2010-11-21
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Un-SQL Friday 001 : Branding for Business
I really like Jen’s (MidnightDBA,#sqlawesomesauce) idea for the first Un-SQL Friday. I was struggling with the topic and had to read some of the posts from earlier today. No...
2010-11-20
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Un-SQL Friday 001 : Branding for Business
I really like Jen’s (MidnightDBA,#sqlawesomesauce) idea for the first Un-SQL Friday. I was struggling with the topic and had to...
2010-11-20
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Nodes
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
In the...
2010-11-20
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Branding, my ass! (Un-SQL Friday 001)
Here is my contribution to my blog party, Un-SQL Friday 001: Branding. Join in the fun, won’t you?
I have a...
2010-11-19
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Denali Paging–Key seek lookups
In my previous post “Denali Paging – is it win.win ?” I demonstrated the use of using the Paging functionality within Denali. ...
2010-11-19
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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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