Whitepaper on Malware to Attack Databases
Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss Information Security has put out a new whitepaper (.pdf format), Data0: Next generation malware for stealing...
2007-11-23
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Blog Posts
Buying a New Cell Phone
For the page 10 months or so I've been using a Samsung Blackjack, before that I used various Blackberries for...
2007-11-21
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Distributed Transaction Issue Msg 7391
I solved an "interesting" issue today. It is about distributed transaction. When I set up transactional replication with immediate updating...
2007-11-21
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Logging Server Reboots - What the Heck MS?
Maybe someone at MS can explain this; they have that nice dialog that comes up after a reboot where you...
2007-11-21
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SQLSaturday Article Posted on SSC
I wrote up some more notes (in addition to what's available here on the blog) to try to raise the...
2007-11-21
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Confused?
I recently wrote an article on owners vs schemas for SQLTeam thinking that I had this all figured out. So...
2007-11-20
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SQLSaturday #2 aka SQLSaturday Tampa 2007
I had dinner with Wes Dumey and Pam Shaw from Tampa last night to share some lessons learned and hear...
2007-11-20
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Giving PASS Chapters Access to Summit Content
I've got a request in to PASS asking them to release 2 of the many sessions that were presented at...
2007-11-19
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Physical Fitness
Real life events continue to interfere with my regular posting. However, I would rather deal with them and neglect posting...
2007-11-19
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Dr Dobbs & Databases
You may not think of DDJ for database info and I'll admit that what they do cover is often a...
2007-11-15
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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