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
423 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
1,978 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
472 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...
2018-05-02 (first published: 2018-04-24)
2,958 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...
2018-04-26 (first published: 2018-04-17)
6,142 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
1,152 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
337 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
1,145 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...
2018-04-04 (first published: 2018-03-28)
3,372 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
321 reads
Blogs
Microsoft MVP 2026: Ten Years on the Data Platform
I’m honored to announce that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the...
Building AgentDBA’s Slack Escalation
By Arun Sirpal
Until now, a CRITICAL finding did the right internal routing, but the last mile...
Changing the Owner Removes Permissions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
This is actually inspired by an article SQL Server Central, which taught me something...
Forums
Developer edition cannot connect from other computers
I installed a new SQL server 2025 Enterprise developer edition for our development environment....
How Clustering can be Used as a Preprocessing Technique for Classification in Azure Machine Learning
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Moving the Error Log
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Moving the Error Log
How can I change the location in which the SQL Server error log is written in SQL Server 2025?
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