When security and news collide
Behold! There’s a scary monster called skip-2.0, announced by ESET: This backdoor targets MSSQL Server 11 and 12, allowing the attacker to connect stealthily to any MSSQL account by...
2019-10-30
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Blog Posts
Why I Make Animated Gifs for Presentation Demo Backups
PASS Summit 2019 starts up next Monday with pre-conference sessions. I’ve got my schedule all set, and I’m going to be busy: I’m speaking in two full-day pre-conference sessions,...
2019-10-30
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Fail to cycle errorlog
sometime we observed that errorlog recycle is failed this happens when we monitor/read errorlog using our monitoring tool or monitoring application/scripts during this task if we want to recycle...
2019-10-29
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I’m Speaking at SQL Saturday Oregon
I am honored to have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Oregon this year. They always have so many sessions submitted with only 40 slots available. I was...
2019-10-29
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Last Week Reading (2019-10-27)
Hello and good morning! We have Tuesday morning, which means I experienced a delay in this post. But finally, it is out and have a look at how much...
2019-10-29
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Preparing for PASS Summit - Odds and Ends
This is the final installment in my series of posts which I hope will help you (and me!) prepare for the upcoming PASS Summit November 4-8, 2019 in Seattle,...
2019-10-29
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SQL Server 2019 Feature Power Rankings
Watch this week's video on YouTube
With the release of SQL Server 2019 imminent, I thought it'd be fun to rank which features I am most looking forward to in...
2019-10-29
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SQL Server 2019 Feature Power Rankings
Watch me comment on all of the features in this week’s video. With the release of SQL Server 2019 imminent, I thought it’d be fun to rank which features...
2019-10-29
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SQL Server 2019 Feature Power Rankings
Watch this week's video on YouTube
With the release of SQL Server 2019 imminent, I thought it'd be fun to rank which features I am most looking forward to in...
2019-10-29
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Switch activity in Azure Data Factory: Container with many IFs
(2019-October-16) Developing conditional logic of your Azure Data Factory control flow has been simplified with introducing of the Switch activity - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-switch-activity. Official documentation resource states, this new data factory activity "provides...
2019-10-29 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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Independence Day 2026
In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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