Database Books
Well my theory on posting every week has been tested to the limit somewhat and I didn’t get anything written...
2009-12-08
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Blog Posts
December Patches
I note these for Database Weekly, but I haven’t blogged about them. A mistake on my part.
The December patches from...
2009-12-08
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID and Hard Disk Reliability, Under the Covers
In the last RAID article we covered the basics. This is a little deeper dive into the underlying mechanics of...
2009-12-08
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Handling Inconvenient Requests
"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they...
2009-12-08
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Locking & Blocking
On the gridiron, two opposing teams are contending for one very limited resource, the football. One team has it; the...
2009-12-08
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Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008 Pre-reading List
Via Twitter, I stumbled upon a link to this newly updated pdf from Joseph Sack and David Ikeda who are...
2009-12-08
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PASS Editorial for December 9, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-12-08
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The Numbers Don’t Lie… Except When They Do
There are few things more reassuring for a data professional than having clean, consistent data to back up critical business...
2009-12-08
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Travel Recap for 2009
Starting Wednesday, December 9, 2009, I am on vacation until Monday, January 4th, 2010. Instead of traveling somewhere else for...
2009-12-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #001 – Dates and Times
T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (@AdamMachanic) on his blog to encourage SQL Bloggers to share their tips and...
2009-12-08
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Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
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 ...
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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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