Renewed as a Friend of Red Gate
I recently received the news that I’ve been renewed as a Friend of Red Gate. I’ve been a big fan of Red Gate since the days when SQL Compare...
2020-02-25
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
SheLeadsTech Webinar: Braving the Wilderness of Cybersecurity
ISACA has a SheLeadsTech webinar for tomorrow, February 25, 2020 titled Braving the Wilderness of Cybersecurity. Registration Link: https://www.isaca.org/education/online-events/lms_w022520 If you can’t make the talk, ISACA archives all webinars...
2020-02-24
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[Cross post] Innovating Yourself as an IS Auditor
This is also posted to the ISACA Journal blog, Practically Speaking: As new technologies are developed, we have to stay up to date with them. More so than almost...
2020-01-08 (first published: 2020-01-02)
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Azure – BGP Community for Application Insights (Need Votes)
Working with Microsoft, we determined that there is no BGP community for Azure’s Application Insights. As a result, I’ve created a feedback request for Microsoft to consider doing just...
2020-01-08 (first published: 2019-12-30)
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Personal Goal Accomplished: Speaking at the PASS Summit
I mentioned on twitter that a family tragedy about a decade ago had resulted in a false start with respect to this goal: After a false start about a...
2019-11-07
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Should I Be Worried About skip-2.0?
A new piece of malware which hooks into SQL Server, skip-2.0, has been making the tech media rounds. If you’ve not read about it yet or you’re looking for...
2019-10-25
68 reads
July 2019 – New Microsoft security update for Spectre variant
If you remember the flurry of news from the beginning of 2018 about side channel attacks called Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft has included in its July update a patch...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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New Security Update for SQL Server in July 2019 Patches
It doesn’t look like this would affect SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 since the earliest reported platform is SQL Server 2014, but in Microsoft’s release of...
2019-07-17 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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Guidance on Moving Off of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
July 9, 2019 will be here soon. With it comes the end of support, including security updates for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 unless you either...
2019-06-21
49 reads
Amazon’s Concept of Ownership and Technical Debt
I’m reading Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader. In talking about Amazon’s pursuit of a second headquarters, John Rossman wrote the following regarding ownership: Amazon’s second leadership...
2019-06-12
377 reads
Blogs
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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