The Importance of ORDER BY
Everyone, at the beginning of their SQL career, get’s told that it is important to include an ORDER BY if...
2018-05-30
422 reads
Matthew McGiffen DBA
Thoughts on Query Performance with TDE enabled
Microsoft state that enabling TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) usually has a performance overhead of 2-4%. That doesn’t sound like very...
2018-05-23
1,906 reads
Hitting my first big blogging milestone – 100k Reads
After blogging about SQL Server for just over a year, at some in the last month I went over 100,000...
2018-05-16
470 reads
Database Files Down The Wrong Path
I manage a few servers used to host SQL Instances for development and test purposes. Each of those instances hosts...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-04-24)
2,950 reads
RDS encryption vs TDE
If you’re starting to use cloud services, the number of options available can be confusing. Particularly when they may seem...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-04-17)
6,125 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #101 – Some Great SQL Server Tools
This month for T-SQL Tuesday #101 Jens Vestergaard asks us to blog about the essential tools in our SQL Toolbelt.
http://t-sql.dk/?p=1947
I’d...
2018-04-10
1,151 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #101. CMS – Effortlessly run queries against multiple SQL Servers at once
This month for T-SQL Tuesday #101 Jens Vestergaard asks us to blog about the essential tools in our SQL Toolbelt.
http://t-sql.dk/?p=1947
The...
2018-04-10
336 reads
TDE – Regenerating the Database Encryption Key
As discussed in the last post, with TDE (Transparent Data Encryption), you generally do not need to change the Database...
2018-04-03
1,143 reads
Rotating TDE Certificates without re-encrypting data
I talked previously about why we have each of the layers in the encryption hierarchy used to support TDE (Transparent...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-03-28)
3,339 reads
Crystal Balls
In the centenary edition of the monthly blogging party that is T-SQL Tuesday, Adam Machanic asks us to look forward...
2018-03-13
320 reads
Blogs
AI and Data Engineering on the Edge: The Good, the Bad, and the Overhyped
Running AI and data pipelines on the edge instead of the cloud has gone...
UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While writing another post I realized my UNION query didn’t work as one might...
Deciphering Data Architectures Is Now Available in Multiple Languages
By James Serra
Since the release of my book Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data...
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Question of the Day
Secure Cached Plans
The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?
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