Security Controls: CISA vs. CISSP
When looking at the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam, we focus on teaching 3 types of controls: Preventative – keeps an incident from occurring Detective – Identifies the...
2019-06-04
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday Louisville
Are you coming to town for SQL Saturday 883 in Louisville KY, if you are going to be around the area on August 2nd, I’ll be presenting an all...
2019-06-04
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SQL Saturday Louisville
Are you coming to town for SQL Saturday 883 in Louisville KY, if you are going to be around the area on August 2nd, I’ll be presenting an all...
2019-06-04
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SQL Saturday Louisville
Are you coming to town for SQL Saturday 883 in Louisville KY, if you are going to be around the area on August 2nd, I’ll be presenting an all...
2019-06-04
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How do you choose which columns to include in your SQL Server clustered index?
Database Engineering: Database Modelling: Do I need to have an incrementing identity int/bigint as my clustered index in a SQL Server database? When you want to produce a professional...
2019-06-03
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How do you choose which columns to include in your SQL Server clustered index?
Database Engineering: Database Modelling: Do I need to have an incrementing identity int/bigint as my clustered index in a SQL Server database? When you want to produce a professional...
2019-06-03
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Major Cloud Outage impacts Google Compute Engine – Were you prepared?
Google first reported an “Issue” on Jun 2, 2019 at 12:25 PDT. As is now common in any type of disaster, reports of this outage first appeared on social...
2019-06-03
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SQL Homework – June 2019 – Property functions
Yep. It’s time for your monthly homework session. You’ve finished last months right? Please turn it in over there. This ... Continue reading
2019-06-03
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge
Hello Baton Rouge! David Pless and I will be teaching an all day workshop on Performance Tuning and Optimization for Modern Workloads (SQL Server 2017, Azure SQL Database, and...
2019-06-03
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge
Hello Baton Rouge! David Pless and I will be teaching an all day workshop on Performance Tuning and Optimization for Modern Workloads (SQL Server 2017, Azure SQL Database, and...
2019-06-03
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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