Building an Infrastructure
As we try and evolve our automotive industry, and perhaps our energy policy, to move into the future in the...
2008-12-24
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Blog Posts
Merry Xmas
I'm enjoying today with family and hope you are as well. Nothing complicated today, just some appropriate music!
Bruce Springsteen - Santa...
2008-12-24
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Blackberry Bold
It was only a year ago that I moved from the Blackjack to the Blackberry Curve and overall I was...
2008-12-23
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Check Out the Free Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
Traditionally, analyzing Performance Monitor data has not been an easy task. It often involved viewing Performance Monitor logs in graph...
2008-12-23
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Do No Evil
One of Google's tenets is to "do no evil" as they run their corporation. This article questions their motives as...
2008-12-23
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Looking for a DBA Diversion?
If you haven't done so, check out this Simple-Talk Editorial by Tony Davis, in addition to all the comments the...
2008-12-23
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Hiring Your First Employee
Visit Business of Software
It’s my boss, or rather the owner of the company I work for (yes I work for...
2008-12-22
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Office Ribbon - Find The Command/Out of Office?
I guess I'm stuck in the past, but the Office Ribbon still hasn't grown on me. I think it makes...
2008-12-22
741 reads
Call It a Day, or a Day Minus 2 Milliseconds
There's one report that I look at every day to assess how things are going on a project we launched...
2008-12-21
603 reads
Sp_altermessage “Classic”, much better than “New” sp_altermessage
I was reading through the SQL Server 2005 SP3 release notes yesterday (sadly, it was enjoyable) and clicked through to...
2008-12-19
799 reads
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...
Forums
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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