My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
669 reads
A Critical SQL Server 2014 Cumulative Update
If you are running SQL Server 2014, please read the following:
Memory leak occurs when you run DBCC CHECKDB against a...
2015-02-20
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A Critical SQL Server 2014 Cumulative Update
If you are running SQL Server 2014, please read the following:
Memory leak occurs when you run DBCC CHECKDB against a...
2015-02-20
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SQL Saturday #354 – Charleston, SC is almost here!
If you are relatively near to Charleston, SC, there’s a SQL Saturday there this weekend, December 13th!
SQL Saturday #354 – Charleston,...
2014-12-09
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FUD Makes Security Harder
The US government’s illogical screeds against better personal encryption for data and communications is well documented. Then comes this reported...
2014-11-20
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More on that Cyberwar
As a follow-up to my post on being at war, cyberwar:
State Department Hacked
If the experts are correct, this trend is...
2014-11-18
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We’re at War – Cyberwar
In case you’ve not been following the news with regards to *government* breaches:
White House computers hacked – Russia suspectedUS Postal Service...
2014-11-13
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Speaking at SQL Saturday #354 – Charleston, SC
If you’re looking to warm up for the winter, come on down to Charleston, SC, on December 13, 2014. Charleston...
2014-11-12
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Generalists vs. Specialists
I’ve stated quite often that being a generalist has generally been beneficial for my IT career (pun intended). That’s why...
2014-11-13 (first published: 2014-11-06)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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