A New Road Ahead…
Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems. Jokingly, I refer to myself as The Centino of Systems. I learned a lot...
2021-05-22
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Blog Posts
A New Road Ahead…
Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems. Jokingly, I refer to myself as The Centino of Systems. I learned a lot...
2021-05-22
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Career: Talk To References
As we try to get through these strange times in the world, I am starting to see a bit more career movement in 2021 than I saw for much...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-14)
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Daily Coping 21 May 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-05-21
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Encryption in SQL Server #1 – Column Level Encryption
For one reason or another data security and encryption has been coming up quite a bit in my day to day work recently and I’ve started to realise that...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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SQL Server Collations: What does “CP1” mean in “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS”?
(last updated: 2021-05-31 @ 19:00 EST / 2021-05-31 @ 23:00 UTC ) Many of us that work with Microsoft SQL Server, especially those of us working on systems with...
2021-05-21
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Daily Coping 20 May 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-05-20
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Testing for Specific Versions of TLS Protocols Using curl
Ever need to set your web server a specific protocol version of TLS for web servers and need a quick way to test that out to confirm? Let’s check...
2021-05-20
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Daily Coping 19 May 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-05-19
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Don’t Stop at Just Enabling Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI)
This past week I had a great Client ask an even greater question, and it got me thinking. The question is straightforward (albeit nerdy, which I love). “We’ve enabled...
2021-05-19 (first published: 2021-05-10)
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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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