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I try to keep a pretty tight lid on the comments to the blog because there's a lot of SPAM...
2010-03-25
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Avoiding Plagiarism
Having gone to an academic magnet school, I have quite a few friends who are teaching at the university level...
2010-03-24
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Don't Throw Something New In At Production Deployment
This post comes from a conversation I had with a developer last week as well as my experiences over the...
2010-03-22
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When It "Has" to Use SA...
As an infrastructure and security architect, I cringe any time any one mentions the following:
Domain AdminrootsaThose accounts can do anything...
2010-03-19
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New Goal: Security Presentation for End Users on Social Media
Cross-posted from the Goal Keeping DBA:
In recent days I’ve seen folks jump on Facebook groups and become fans of pages...
2010-03-18
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Working for/with High Caliber Folks
Within a couple of days of each other, both Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) and Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) tweeted about possible job opportunities which would...
2010-03-12
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Upgraded to Model
That's right, folks, I'm now a model. Or at least, a model DB. Tom LaRock released his most recent rankings and...
2010-03-10
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PASS Summit to Stay in Seattle
PASS has released the survey results as well as its decision about where to hold future Summit events. The decision...
2010-03-10
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Focus on Your Passion
Tuesday night I was having a conversation with my younger son, whom we call Turtle. It's a nickname that came...
2010-03-04
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Baby Steps to Learning Something New
I had a really bad habit of trying to jump into the middle of something I didn't know very well,...
2010-03-03
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Blogs
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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