Filing the Annual Tax Return for SQLOrlando
Similar to my earlier post on filing the annual report, once a year we have to file a tax return with the IRS. Basically if the revenue is less...
2021-01-10
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Filing the Annual Tax Return for SQLOrlando
Similar to my earlier post on filing the annual report, once a year we have to file a tax return with the IRS. Basically if the revenue is less...
2021-01-10
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Connecting to SharePoint Lists with SSIS
SharePoint lists are popular and simple tools for storing modestly-sized discrete sets of data. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes a source component to allow reading data from SharePoint...
2021-01-09
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Daily Coping 8 Jan 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...
2021-01-08
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Goal Progress–Wrapping up 2020
This is the final look at my goals for 2020 and how I did. I am writing this a few days after the end of the year, and examining...
2021-01-08
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Powerful Monitoring for Your Linked Servers with XEvents
Linked Servers can certainly provide an enigma to your finely tuned Database environment. In this article, I share how to decrypt that enigma via XEvents.
The post Powerful Monitoring...
2021-01-08 (first published: 2021-01-02)
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Saving PASS Pro Videos
PASS will close down their websites on 15 Jan 2021. That’s just a couple weeks away, and if you’re someone that paid for a year of PASS Pro access,...
2021-01-08 (first published: 2021-01-04)
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Daily Coping 7 Jan 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...
2021-01-07
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Experiments With Go Arrays and Slices
Simplicity Over Syntactic Sugar
As I’ve been learning Go, I’ve grown to learn that many decisions to simplify the language have removed many features that provide more succinct expressions in...
2021-01-07 (first published: 2020-12-30)
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Game changer settings # MAXDOP and Cost threshold for parallelism
I got a performance tuning assignment for an esteemed customer in the Financial Services domain. I went through the wait stats of SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server...
2021-01-07 (first published: 2021-01-02)
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Blogs
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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