Overview of Encryption Tools in SQL Server
More and more people are considering some level of encryption against their data stored in SQL Server. In many cases...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2017-12-05)
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Blog Posts
RDS encryption vs TDE
If you’re starting to use cloud services, the number of options available can be confusing. Particularly when they may seem...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-04-17)
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Rotating TDE Certificates without re-encrypting data
I talked previously about why we have each of the layers in the encryption hierarchy used to support TDE (Transparent...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-03-28)
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Row-count Estimates when there are no Statistics
I was discussing Cardinality Estimation with a colleague recently and the question came up, what cardinality does SQL Server use...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2017-06-28)
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Some Time Away
Greetings everybody! It has been a while since I posted anything here. I figured I...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2019-04-15)
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SQL 2016 – Clone Database with Query Store
This is a quickie post to introduce the new DBCC command CLONEDATABASE.
Okay so this isn’t technically a SQL Server 2016...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2017-03-20)
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SQL Puzzle 2: Eight Queens
This puzzle was first proposed in 1848 by a composer of chess puzzles called Max Bezzel and has since spawned...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2017-07-19)
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SQL Puzzle 3: Knights and Queens
I thought I’d do another chess puzzle this month. This one is a variant on the Eight Queens problem:
SQL Puzzle...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2017-08-22)
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SQL Puzzle 4: The Beale Papers
I’ve not done a SQL puzzle for a while so thought it was getting overdue…
I set this one for my...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2017-11-08)
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SQL Puzzle 5: Prime Magic
Quite a few of you have read or attempted the previous puzzle SQL Puzzle 1: Magic Squares
As a quick reminder, when...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2017-12-19)
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Blogs
Accelerating AI with Confidence: Why Microsoft Purview is Key to Responsible Innovation
By Chris Yates
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It is here, embedded in the...
The Mystery of SQL Server 2025’s New Tricks – Scooby Dooing Episode 5
Every Scooby-Doo mystery starts with a haunted house, a strange villain, and a trail...
A Prompt AI Experiment
By Steve Jones
Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
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statistics callection intervel in query store ?
Statistics Collection Interval: Defines the level of granularity for the collected runtime statistic, expressed...
Rounding Off issue in SQL Server
I am using Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (RTM-CU17) (KB5048038) - 16.0.4175.1 (X64) Microsoft Corporation...
how to get notification that my database has corssed 8gb
i have sqlexpress on rds, is there any way i can get notifacation that...
Question of the Day
SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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