SQL University Starting Back Up
Jorge Segarra's ( @SQLChicken) excellent community idea, SQL University, is starting back up next week. This is effectively free training on...
2010-04-08
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A Good Expansion on the Topic of Plagiarism
In a previous post I gave some links which help explain what plagiarism is and how to generally avoid it....
2010-04-08
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Data-Driven Subscriptions at OPASS
Six months ago, I spoke at a SQLSaturday in Orlando, Florida. I had a great time. Andy Warren (Blog | Twitter),...
2010-04-08
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Early Planning for SQLSaturday Orlando 2010
I did an hour or so call with Jack Corbett recently to review what we hope to accomplish this year....
2010-04-08
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Spring Training 2010
Life was busier than I would have liked this year, but made it to one game, Braves vs Tigers, for...
2010-04-08
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A DMV a Day – Day 8
We have two related DMVs for Day 8. The first one is sys.dm_fts_active_catalogs, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information...
2010-04-08
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A 96 hour meeting
I didn’t think about it this way, but it made perfect sense after I read an essay. Recently my team...
2010-04-08
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Test Driving a LinkedIn Poll
Had this on my list for a while, thinking maybe it’s a way to leverage the investment in my (your)...
2010-04-07
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How Silly
Have you ever done anything that made you feel like a dunderhead? Maybe a little bone-headed, thick, numb-skullish?
Here is my...
2010-04-07
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How Do I Identify Invalid or Unneeded Logins?
Introduction
I was looking at one of my servers and was caught off-guard by how many individual users had been granted...
2010-04-07
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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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