Enjoying Sunshine
My coping tip a couple days ago was to enjoy your weather. In it, I was dealing with clouds and what most people see as bad weather. Today is...
2021-03-19
25 reads
It’s Been a Year
I’ll turn this into an editorial, but it’s been a year since my area shut down and life changed. I would never have guessed things would last this long,...
2021-03-19
20 reads
Daily Coping 19 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-19
18 reads
Finding a SQL Saturday Board of Directors
I wrote recently about looking for candidates and the criteria that I initially considered. I am happy to say quite a few people expressed interest, and my list of...
2021-03-23 (first published: 2021-03-18)
79 reads
Daily Coping 18 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-18
26 reads
Initial Thoughts on Dremio
I’ve been working on a project for the last few months with a client who has chosen to implement Dremio in Azure. Dremio is a data lake engine that...
2021-03-23 (first published: 2021-03-18)
115 reads
Summarizing a Script with SQL Prompt
I have never used this feature, but someone was asking for feedback on Prompt, and I noticed this in the menu: Summarize script. I had guessed that it might...
2021-03-22 (first published: 2021-03-17)
80 reads
Daily Coping 17 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-17
23 reads
T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #012: Why DBA skills are necessary
This is my ongoing series of answering T-SQL Tuesday posts far too late to be of any use. Click here if you want to read previous entries. Paul Randal...
2021-03-17
140 reads
Daily Coping 16 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-16
27 reads
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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