Encrypting a Database Never Finishes

There is plenty of legislation and regulation in place these days that strongly suggest the encryption of data within a database.  In SQL Server, we have the ability to...

Information Measurement with SQL Server Part 4.3: Euclidean Distance and the Minkowski Family

By Steve Bolton
…………“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.”
…………In this famous remark, Archimedes[1] (287-212 B.C.) managed to...

Personal Touch: An Argument Against Automation

At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest...

Personal Touch: An Argument Against Automation

At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest sushi restaurant. The exterior could be described as tasteful...

Restarting a Sequence–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

SHUTDOWN SQL Server

Recently a friend by the name of Chris Bell (blog | twitter) wrote about an easy way to disrupt SQL Server....

Actual Emails: What is a "soft delete"?

What's a "soft delete", and why should DBAs be aware of such behavior in tables?
So, a DELETE statement is a “hard” delete. The data is gone.

However, it is a...

Infrastructure matters, even in the Cloud

I am still amused by terminology in the Information Technology field. Words like “Kubernetes,” “containers,” and the BASIC keywords PEEK...

MongoDB – Basic Commands

We discussed about MongoDb installation and startup. I highly recommend to go though the training session which will provide a detail...

SQL Server Availability Group FailoverDetection Utility PowerShell Function Improvements – Named Instances, Archiving Data, Speed

In my last post I wrote about a new function for gathering the data and running the FailoverDetection utility by...