Kilt Day! PASS Summit 2016, Thursday

Thursday at the PASS Summit is Kilt Day.
This means you should wear a kilt. Whether you do it in support...

Defending your data

Which of these is more secure?

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Nicolas Chadeville / 500pxIt’s a trick question – the correct answer is “neither”.
Both castles and vaults...

Join me and Kalen Delaney today for 24HOP

I’m excited to be monitoring Kalen’s session on concurrency. The session is today and is titled “Locking, Blocking, Versions: Concurrency...

Top 5 SQL Server Books for the DBA

The Top 5 series has proved rather popular. My Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the most popular post in...

Reminder: #SQLChat at lunch today

This is a reminder that we’ll having a #SQLChat this afternoon at 12 PM EDT. Here are the details:
SQLChat: Do...

Sql Server – Statistics (Create, Update and delete Statistics)

Sql Server – Statistics (Create, Update and delete Statistics)

If you are reading this Article, I assume that you know the basics...

Implementing Fuzzy Sets in SQL Server, Part 3: Using Fuzzy Intersections as AND Statements

By Steve Bolton
…………Whenever we assign set membership grades to records on a continuous scale, we open up a whole new...

PASS Summit 2016: Recommendations and Invitations (#sqlpass #sqlsummit)

The last week of October, we’ll be at the PASS Summit in Seattle, WA.  As some of you already know – and as I...

Learning All About Always Encrypted at DevConnections

Like the alliteration in the title? I almost removed it, but decided it had a nice ring. Maybe that should...

Resolving an Error When Creating an Availability Group Listener

Resolving an Error When Creating an Availability Group Listener.

In this post, I’m going to talk an issue that I found...