Learning Powershell
I’ve been attending a Powershell fundamentals class with Don Jones (blog|twitter). If you read my blog you might be aware...
2010-06-23
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Vote for the Exceptional DBA of the Year
Starting today, you can vote for the 2010 Exceptional DBA of the Year. All of the nominations have been reviewed...
2010-06-23
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Error 25602 When Creating an Extended Events Session: a Security Risk
Error 25602 When Creating an Extended Events Session: a Security Risk
I came across an interesting issue recently when helping someone...
2010-06-23
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24 Hours of PASS
On the 19th/20th May (last month) the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) held its second 24 hours of PASS...
2010-06-23
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Selling
I saw Paul Kenny at the first Business of Software conference, and then had dinner with him, chatting about sales....
2010-06-23
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SQL Saturdays are Catching On
Andy Warren (blog| Twitter) sent me a link recently to a piece written by Kalen Delaney on the recent SQL...
2010-06-23
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2010-06-23
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Building a PASS Voting Solution – Part 5
Today we move over to the web side of things. I put this together with VS 2010, and it’s a...
2010-06-23
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PowerShell ETL Presentation
My thanks to everyone in attendence and PASS AppDev VC for inviting me to speak. I’ll post a link to...
2010-06-23
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SQL Server Operating System Checklist
As a part of a new book project, I am putting together a series of checklists that DBAs can use...
2010-06-23
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
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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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