The Limited Usefulness of Encrypting File System (EFS) and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
This is something that hit me as I was presenting to the Charlotte SQL Server User Group last night.
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2009-02-18
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Blog Posts
All In & Being Competitive
Many of us in IT are competitive, maybe slightly more so than in other professions. Competition adds a little spice...
2009-02-17
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Database Mirroring FAQ: Can a 2008 SQL instance be used as the witness for a 2005 database mirroring setup?
Question: Can a 2008 SQL instance be used as the witness for a 2005 database mirroring setup?
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2009-02-17
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Your Local User Group
When I talk to other SQL Server professionals, I’m often surprised at how many do not have any involvement in...
2009-02-17
1,228 reads
Be Careful with String Concatenations in SQL Server with Big Strings.
Now, we are going to get slightly esoteric here. I'd noticed that the performance of string concatenation tasks didn't increase...
2009-02-16
14,604 reads
Book Review - The Human Edge
I've always enjoyed the science fiction writings of Gordon Dickson, and recently re-read an old copy of The Human Edge,...
2009-02-16
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Database Mirroring FAQ: If the principal fails while running in high performance mode, what options do I have for bringing the mirror online?
Question: If the principal fails while running in high performance mode, what options do I have for bringing the mirror...
2009-02-16
4,551 reads
Recharged
It’s rare that I’ve taken vacation in the last few years. In fact, when I took an unwired week in...
2009-02-16
716 reads
Networking - Part 5
You can read the previous posts here. To finish up my thoughts on networking I want to brain storm some...
2009-02-15
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The Importance of the Segregation of Duties with Respect to Internal Controls
I diverge a little from the typical coding-based/oriented best practice to one that is focused on governance within public or government organisations...
2009-02-15
7,912 reads
Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers