How do I ... Write a Backup Strategy?
How do I Write a Backup Strategy?
DBA's harp about the need to have backups. The first thing many DBA’s do when they inherit...
2010-04-09
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Prius Update – Three Years In
I’ve had the Prius for 3 years as of Mar 31, 2010, and it’s been a great car for us....
2010-04-09
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Reporting Services 2008 R2 KPI Ready
As I begin to explore more and more of the new feature that will be available in SQL Server 2008...
2010-04-09
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Thoughts on ORM
I’ve posted before about issues I’m having either with behaviors of nHibernate, or behaviors of teams using nHibernate, but I...
2010-04-09
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The Tweetup
An interesting experiment from Microsoft tonight. They brought 8 or 9 bloggers/press people from around the country to Redmond for...
2010-04-09
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Cloud Computing - Will Data Breaches Cost More?
That's the main point from the following article:
Video: Data breaches to cost more in the cloud
The cost was calculated per...
2010-04-09
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A DMV a Day – Day 9
The DMV for Day 9 is sys.dm_os_schedulers, which is described by BOL as:
Returns one row per scheduler in SQL Server...
2010-04-09
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Learn How Vendors Price Their Software
As DBAs, we are often put in the position of purchasing software from third-party vendors. If you are like me,...
2010-04-09
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What Do I Need to Do After Moving a Database to SQL 2005/2008?
Introduction
I recently moved a database from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. It was really just a matter of detaching the...
2010-04-08
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Q1 - review
I didn’t post my professional goals for the year on my blog at the start of this year, my blog...
2010-04-08
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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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