Providing More Feedback on My New Book: Defining Extents
As some of you may know, I am writing a new book called High Performance Index Maintenance. As an experiment...
2009-02-19
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Blog Posts
Boulder SQL Server Users Group
Last night I went to the February Boulder SQL Server User’s Group meeting up in Broomfield, CO to deliver my...
2009-02-18
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Database Mirroring FAQ: Why does Database Mirroring Monitor report that my mirror is disconnected?
Question: Why does Database Mirroring Monitor report that my mirror is disconnected?
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2009-02-18
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MySpace
MySpace has been the Premier SQL Server site, and probably the largest SQL Server site, on the Internet. It’s a...
2009-02-18
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Networking - Part 6
You can read the previous posts here. To finish up (I think), I want to share a networking technique I...
2009-02-18
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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.
Back...
2009-02-18
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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
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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
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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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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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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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