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SQL Server Time Bombs

Common Reasons for Emergency SQL calls If you are a production DBA (or Accidental prod DBA) you’ve gotten that frantic call in the middle of the night. Or maybe...

2025-03-12 (first published: )

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T-SQL Tuesday 184 - Mentorship

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Deborah Melkin
(blog) asks us to talk about our relationship with mentoring and...

2025-03-11

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SQL Saturday Atlanta BI Recap

https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-08-sqlsaturday1102/#schedule SQL Saturday Atlanta BI is one of my favorite SQL Saturdays of the year. This year was especially sweet to see a lot of the SML (Saturday Morning...

2025-03-10

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SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption

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Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...

A Las Vegas Break

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Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...

Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up

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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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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025

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Identities and Sequences III

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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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