How to Design Backups in SQL Server?
The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) are basic concepts related to the information to be recovered and the time that it will take to recover....
2021-09-24
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Blog Posts
Slides and Video from Building a Regret-free Foundation for your Data Factory Now Available
Last week, Kerry and I delivered a webinar with tips on how to set up your Data Factory. We discussed version control, deployment, naming conventions, parameterization, documentation, and more....
2021-09-24 (first published: 2021-09-16)
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T-SQL Tuesday #142–What is Bicep?
It’s time for the monthly blog party, and this month the host is Frank Geisler. I was reaching out to various people last year to find hosts, and also...
2021-09-24 (first published: 2021-09-14)
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Daily Coping 23 Sept 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-09-23
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Accessibility in font choice
Choosing the right typeface for your presentation (or for that matter anything you create that contains words) is fraught. In a previous post I wrote about the difference between...
2021-09-22
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Daily Coping 22 Sep 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-09-22
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Data Platform products for Microsoft gaps
Microsoft has a ton of data platform-related products, but there are certain areas where they either don’t have a product or what they have is limited and you need...
2021-09-22
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Database Sizes
Quick query today. I needed a list of database sizes so came up with this: Nothing exciting, but I figure ... Continue reading
2021-09-22 (first published: 2021-09-14)
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Persist Sample Percent in SQL Server IS Fixed!
Hi Everyone, this is John Sterrett. I am a SQL Server Consultant in Austin, TX. Last year I blogged about a feature called Persist Sample Percent. It had a...
2021-09-22 (first published: 2021-09-14)
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Daily Coping 21 Sep 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-09-21
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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