Backup Encryption Performance
Unlike TDE, there is some extra CPU overhead when you take an encrypted backup as the data has to be encrypted before being written to disk – whereas with...
2023-06-05 (first published: 2023-05-22)
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Matthew McGiffen DBA
Why you still need DBA resource in the cloud
Why a DBA, rather then being redundant, is even more valuable when your databases run in the cloud.
2023-05-31 (first published: 2023-05-19)
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Backup Encryption in SQL Server
In this post we look at how you work with the Backup Encryption Feature in SQL Server.
2023-05-18
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2023-05-17
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Top Tools for SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting
When you've got the symptoms of a database issue you can run a series of diagnostic queries to try and drill down on the problem and then start figuring...
2023-05-26 (first published: 2023-05-16)
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TDE: Database Backups and High Availability
Database backups continue to work without change when you have TDE enabled. The only difference is that the backups contain encrypted data that cannot be read without the certificate...
2023-05-15
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The Importance of SQL Server Performance Tuning in the Cloud
Make sure your cloud SQL Server databases are optimized and achieve significant cost savings.
2023-05-12
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Implementing Temporal Tables Where You Have Existing Data
An in-depth look at how you convert an existing table with data to a system versioned table that will maintain a history of changes.
2023-05-11
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Impact of TDE on Performance
Microsoft states that enabling TDE usually has a performance overhead of 2–4%. That doesn’t sound like very much, and personally I wouldn’t let it bother me if I want...
2023-05-24 (first published: 2023-05-10)
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Errata for my book: Pro Encryption in SQL Server 2022
My biggest fear when my book went into production was that any factual errors had slipped through my checks and the various reviews. I had a lot of reviewer...
2023-03-21
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
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Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers