PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are mechanisms to get slides from every speaker who uploaded them. This slide deck is the...
2025-11-21
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Tech Conferences and Expanding Your View
Tech conferences aren't just for networking and learning how to address a problem you're having technically. They are also for expanding your view of what's possible.
2025-12-03 (first published: 2025-11-20)
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Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit
I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for Friday afternoon, so I'll be around for the regular conference from Tuesday evening through Friday....
2025-10-27
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Prepping for Certification, Part 1 of ?
I thought it would be good to put my thoughts down on how to prepare for a certification. I don't know how many posts I will make on this,...
2025-09-26 (first published: 2025-09-04)
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New article: Automating SQL Server Builds
I refresh my test SQL Servers at least monthly with a fresh VM. Setting up directories, installing SQL Server, setting up security, and restoring databases all take time. And...
2025-08-28
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SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate Available
For those testing SQL Server 2025 before it officially releases, Microsoft has made the first release candidate available. There's a lengthy article on all the new features that are...
2025-08-26
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AI and Cybersecurity: the Genie is Out of the Bottle
Today's reality is that cybercriminals are increasingly using AI to develop better attacks. This is just the latest reported technique, probably because it's starting to be used more often....
2025-09-12 (first published: 2025-08-21)
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PASS Data Community Summit LinkedIn Contest
If you're not having success in convincing your organization to send you to this year's PASS Data Community Summit, you could win a 3-day registration by submitting some basic...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-12)
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Andreas Wolter on Evading Data Access Auditing
There are always bad actors who will seek to get access to and, likely, exfiltrate (exfil) the data. But they don't want to get caught; they don't want to...
2025-08-11
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Microsoft Exchange Hybrid Deployment Vulnerability – Shared Service Principal
On August 6, 2025, Microsoft announced a vulnerability with hybrid deployments because of a shared service principal between the Exchange on-premises deployment and Exchange Online. The vulnerability is found...
2025-08-07
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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