Speaking at Midlands PASS in February
On February 12th I'll be giving a SQL Server Security Refresher for Midlands PASS at Microstaff IT in Cayce/West Columbia,...
2013-01-10
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Re-Awarded as a Microsoft MVP
Yesterday (January 1) I received the email indicating I was re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP, once again in SQL Server....
2013-01-02
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Looking Forward to the New Year - Professional Goals
Most folks make New Year's resolutions of things they want to do over the course of the next 364/365 days....
2013-01-01
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Are You a Chessplayer?
I was having a twitter coversation with @dataartisan about chess. He remarked that playing on-line with random folks didn't strike him...
2012-12-17
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Are Your Protecting Your DB Backups?
Folks have cited the recent InformationWeek article on how South Carolina's Department of Revenue was hacked because the SC state government...
2012-11-27
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Server Level Security
We'll discuss surface area later in the week. Today let's talk about if you're able to connect to SQL Server....
2012-11-09 (first published: 2012-11-06)
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SQL Server Security: The Sum of Its Parts
When it comes to attacking SQL Server, whether we're talking about the security of an installation or as a piece...
2012-11-05
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Preparing for Certification
One of my goals back when I was a young MCSE (that's Microsoft Certified System Engineer for NT4, not the...
2012-10-22
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MS12-070 - Should I patch more than Reporting Services?
If you're dealing with a version of SQL Server greater than SQL Server 2000, at this point I'm going to...
2012-10-11
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Slides and Scripts from Idera Auditing SQL Server presentation
I had a few folks ask me for the slides and SQL scripts from the Auditing SQL Server webinar I...
2012-10-10
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Blogs
Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
Connect resiliently to SQL Server
Why you should connect resiliently to SQL Server Transient failures happen — in the cloud...
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Some query values change when query is run but not others. Why?
Hi everyone I have a 1000 line SQL query that is too long to...
using different credentials when debugging ssis
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AlwaysON health check alerts
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