Visual Studio 2010 Download Interruptus
Microsoft has made the RTM bits for the various versions and components of Visual Studio 2010 available on MSDN Subscribers...
2010-04-12
336 reads
Seacoast SQL Users Group
Tomorrow is the Seacost SQL Server User’s Group inaugural meeting. I’ll be presenting a session called “Understanding Execution Plans.” It’s...
2010-04-12
735 reads
New SSDs
I ordered a few recently from NewEgg. One for a desktop, one for a laptop. We’ll see how they do,...
2010-04-12
411 reads
SQLSaturday PowerPoint Template – Looking for Suggestions
Sanj Gandham from PASS HQ set up a basic template for SQLSaturday presentations, you can download it from here. Our...
2010-04-12
736 reads
PASS BI Virtual Chapter – Thursday’s Session Postponed
The PASS BI Virtual Chapter’s scheduled session for this Thursday, April 15th, will have to be postponed until a later...
2010-04-12
671 reads
Notes from the R2 Tweetup
Several weeks ago I was invited to attend a ‘tweetup’ by Microsoft on April 8th, an almost all expenses paid...
2010-04-12
438 reads
Book Review: Crush It!
Not long ago, I read a review of Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Crush It! The reviewer, Michael Hyatt (Twitter | Blog), liked...
2010-04-12
476 reads
db_executor role
This process might not be granular enough for some but there is a nice simple way of creating a role...
2010-04-12
36,195 reads
SCSUG April Meeting Follow-up
The April meeting went well. I had hoped that the prospect of a couple of Technet subscriptions would increase attendance...
2010-04-12
401 reads
April OPASS Meeting Featuring Joe Webb
Tomorrow night, April 13th, at 6pm we will be having our April OPASS meeting, sponsored by Veredus Orlando with Joe...
2010-04-12
440 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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