Replacing an expiring SQL Server encryption key

So you’re using encryption in SQL Server, but you’ve discovered that the expiration date of a certificate is expiring. What...

It's Just Another 9002...another error like all the rest...

11:30pm on a Saturday night, and the pager went off…
Error: 5901, Severity: 16, State: 1.One or more recovery units belonging...

Why Log Shipping is Better than Database Mirroring for Migrations

This topic has come up several times recently, so I feel the need to blog on it. As the person...

Power BI Announcements Summary

It was a crazy week for Power BI. There were quite a lot of announcements, so I’ll try to wrap...

Friday Reading 2017-05-05

Into May and a big couple of events this week in SQL Nexus and the Powershell Conference EU 2017, looking...

C#7 Show Me The New Stuff!

I’m going to walk through an example that we can build up and improve with a number of the new...

Data Channel Interview - 07 - Steve Knutson on Managing Sharepoint Databases

7th Interview of #DataChannel is out 🙂 Very happy to have Mr.Steve Knutson, office servers and SharePoint MVP, share his knowledge on "Managing SharePoint Databases" on #DataChannel. Steve, demystifies...

Data Channel Interview - 07 - Steve Knutson on Managing Sharepoint Databases

7th Interview of #DataChannel is out 🙂 Very happy to have Mr.Steve Knutson, office servers and SharePoint MVP, share his knowledge on "Managing SharePoint Databases" on #DataChannel. Steve, demystifies...

Data Channel Interview - 07 - Steve Knutson on Managing Sharepoint Databases

7th Interview of #DataChannel is out 🙂

Very happy to have Mr.Steve Knutson, office servers and SharePoint MVP, share his knowledge...

Finding the Service Name–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...