SQLSaturday Baton Rouge thank yous
Hello everyone who was at #SQLSatBR this year!We had a huge early morning wave of attendees this morning that inundated our sponsors just like a cooling rain inundated us in...
2018-08-12
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Blog Posts
Database Protection in the Cloud Era
The Cloud is a fun and exciting place to be. Exciting as it may be, even in the cloud, protection...
2018-08-10
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Enable SQLCMD Mode on SSMS
I really like Microsoft philosophy nowadays, they are putting a lot of time developing good open source tools like SQLCLI,...
2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-08-07)
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Money Ball: Fantasy Football Kicks Off Tonight - Jeff's Degenerates
You might think that this blog post is out of place here but I'm hoping use some of the data...
2018-08-10
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Save the Connection String Parameters in SSMS – AlwaysOn
In the SQL Server AlwaysOn setup, whenever you are using a listener to connect to a secondary node, you have...
2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-07-26)
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Taking the Linux plunge – Update
It’s been a couple of weeks now since I took the plunge and bought myself a Dell XPS 13 running...
2018-08-10
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Creating SQL images in Azure with ACR Build – Part Two
EDIT – 2018-10 – ACR Build is now known as ACR Tasks
In Part One I detailed how we can use ACR Build...
2018-08-09 (first published: 2018-07-25)
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Determine SQL Server Network Protocol Information using T-SQL and DMVs
I have recently started as an author for MSSQLTips.com website, this is an excellent site where you can start writing...
2018-08-09
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ISACA Class: Auditing SQL Server in Every Way Possible
At this year’s TechnoSecurity and Digital Forensics Conference I gave a 1 hour presentation on auditing SQL Server. There were...
2018-08-09
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A Day in the Life (1/?) - August 7, 2018
This is my first installment in (I hope) a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog|twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I decided to jot down most of what I did through the...
2018-08-08
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
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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